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Sindbis, n. Biol. and Med.|ˈsɪndbɪs|
[The name of the village of Sindbis in Egypt (see quot. 1955).]
Sindbis virus, an insect-borne togavirus, related to Semliki Forest virus and also used extensively in genetic research. Also absol.
1953R. M. Taylor in Atti del VI Congresso Internazionale di Microbiol. III. 239 If further investigation substantiates that this is a hitherto undescribed virus, it is suggested that it be provisionally designated as the Sindbis virus. 1955Amer. Jrnl. Trop. Med. & Hygiene IV. 844 Subsequent studies indicated that Ar-339 was a hitherto undescribed virus; it was therefore provisionally designated as ‘Sindbis’ virus, the name of the Egyptian village where the mosquitoes from which the virus was first isolated were captured. 1963Virology XX. 443/2 The base ratios of Sindbis virus RNA are quite different from those of two other major groups of RNA viruses represented by poliovirus..and influenza virus. 1980R. W. Chamberlain in R. W. Schlesinger Togaviruses vi. 192 Whataroa virus..is apparently an offshoot of Sindbis that came about because of geographic isolation. |