hantavirus
/ˈhantəˌvʌɪrəs
/noun
A virus of a genus carried by rodents and causing various febrile haemorrhagic diseases, often with kidney damage or failure.Mammals are the most common reservoirs of zoonotic disease, and rodents play the leading role, implicated in the spread of plague, Lyme disease, hantavirus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever....
- Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome is associated with higher mortality than HFRS, was first recognized as a hantavirus disease in 1993, and occurs within the American continents.
- The molecular techniques will include primers that can identify Thottapalayam virus, the only hantavirus isolate from India.
Origin
1980s: from Hantaan (the name of a river in Korea where the virus was first isolated) + virus.
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