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togavirus Med.|ˈtəʊgəvaɪərəs|
[f. L. toga toga + virus.]
Any of a group of RNA animal viruses with enveloped icosahedral capsids, many of which are arthropod-borne and including the viruses of rubella, yellow fever, dengue, and several forms of encephalitis.
1970C. H. Andrewes et al. in Virology XL. 1070/1 Togavirus (from the Latin toga = a cloak) is the name now proposed to cover what is likely to prove the great majority of arboviruses having taxonomic characters like those of the A and B groups. 1974Nature 27 Sept. 343/1 We have examined only one virus outside the picornavirus family, the togavirus, Semliki Forest virus. 1980R. W. Schlesinger Togaviruses i. 10 The rubiviruses, pestiviruses and other ‘non-arbo’ togaviruses are also of enormous medical or veterinary importance. |