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
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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)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reovirus
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