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ALPHAVIRUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does alphavirus mean?
• ALPHAVIRUS (noun)
The noun ALPHAVIRUS has 1 sense:
1. an arbovirus of the family Togaviridae that can cause a variety of encephalitis in horses
Familiarity information: ALPHAVIRUS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An arbovirus of the family Togaviridae that can cause a variety of encephalitis in horses
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("alphavirus" is a kind of...):
animal virus (an animal pathogen that is a virus)
Holonyms ("alphavirus" is a member of...):
Togaviridae (a family of arboviruses carried by arthropods)
Context examples
A cancer vaccine, consisting of alphavirus vector-derived virus-like replicon particles expressing the 9-amino-acid carcinoembryonic antigen peptide (CAP) 1-6D, with potential antineoplastic activity.
(Carcinoembryonic Antigen Peptide 1-6D Virus-Like Replicon Particles Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)
Alphaviruses are spread by insect vector, able to infect vertebrates and invertebrates, and cause arthritis, encephalitis, rashes and fever in humans.
(Alphavirus, NCI Thesaurus)
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