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Definition of Reovirus

1. Noun. Any of a group of non-arboviruses including the rotavirus causing infant enteritis.

Definition of Reovirus

1. Noun. (biology) Any of a group of RNA viruses, of the family ''Reoviridae'', that infect animals and some plants ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Reovirus

1. a type of virus [n -ES] - See also: virus

Medical Definition of Reovirus

1. A genus of viruses (family Reoviridae) that are 75 to 80 nm in diameter, with distinct double layers of capsomeres, and have vertebrates as hosts; a causative relationship to illness has not been proven. They have been recovered from children with mild fever and sometimes diarrhoea, and from children with no apparent infection; from chimpanzees with coryza; monkeys and mice; and cattle faeces. There are three antigenically distinct human types related by a common complement-fixing antigen. (05 Mar 2000)

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Literary usage of Reovirus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Ending the War Metaphor: The Changing Agenda for Unraveling the Host-Microbe by Forum on Microbial Threats, Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (2006)
"A mouse reovirus that exclusively infects Peyer's patches causes a severe infection in ... This reovirus provides a good model for examining how M cells ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"Immunochemical measurement of the thermal denaturation of poly A-poly U (O) and reovirus RNA (Q), measured with antiserum to poly A • poly U 170; ..."

3. Manual of Microbiologic Monitoring of Laboratory Animals by Kimberly Sue Waggie (1994)
"Wild-type strains of reovirus 3 have been isolated from a variety of species ... Laboratory strains of temperature-sensitive reovirus have also been ..."

4. Potential Groundwater Contamination from Intentional and Nonintentional by Robert Pitt, Shirley Clark, Keith Parmer (1994)
"... enterovirus) Rotavirus (reovirus family) 2 (gastroenteritis Type B) Reovirus 3 Adenovirus >30 Parvovirus 3 Adeno-Associated Virus Source: Grites 1985. ..."

5. Diarrhea and Malnutrition: Interactions, Mechanisms, and Interventions by Lincoln C. Chen, Nevin S. Scrimshaw (1983)
"... MH, and Wells, JG Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli and reovirus-like agents ... for detection of human reovirus-like agent of infantile gastroenteritis. ..."

6. Rice Genetics IV by Gurdev S. Khush, D. S. Brar, Bill Hardy (2001)
"From work on animal-infecting reoviruses, it is possible to present a scenario for the plant reovirus replication cycle (see Waterhouse and Upadhyaya 1998). ..."

7. Microbial and Phenotypic Definition of Rats and Mice: Proceedings of the by National Research Council Staff, ebrary, Inc, National Research Council, International Committee, Commission on Life Sciences, National Academy of Sciences (1999)
"... XX Pneumonia virus of mice XX Reovirus type 3 XX Sialodacryoadenitis virus X Spironucleus muris XX Streptococcus pneumoniae X ..."

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