FLAVIVIRUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does flavivirus mean? 

• FLAVIVIRUS (noun)
  The noun FLAVIVIRUS has 1 sense:

1. animal viruses belonging to the family Flaviviridae

  Familiarity information: FLAVIVIRUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLAVIVIRUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Animal viruses belonging to the family Flaviviridae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("flavivirus" is a kind of...):

animal virus (an animal pathogen that is a virus)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "flavivirus"):

West Nile encephalitis virus; West Nile virus (the flavivirus that causes West Nile encephalitis)

Holonyms ("flavivirus" is a member of...):

Flaviviridae (a family of arboviruses carried by arthropods)

 Context examples 

Flaviviruses may use this glycoprotein region to attach to and enter human cells.

(Zika virus structure revealed, NIH)

ddhCTP may be able to inhibit all flaviviruses, a class of viruses that includes Zika as well as dengue, West Nile, yellow fever, Japanese encephalitis and hepatitis C.

(Scientists Discover How Antiviral Gene Works, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Powassan is the only endemic flavivirus spread by ticks in North America, where it is considered a re-emerging virus.

(Tick salivary glands can be a tool to study virus transmission and infection, National Institutes of Health)

The researchers found that the Zika virus structure is similar to that of other known flaviviruses, except for one region of the envelope glycoprotein.

(Zika virus structure revealed, NIH)

Flaviviruses include dengue virus, Zika virus, West Nile virus, yellow fever virus, Powassan virus and several other viruses.

(Tick salivary glands can be a tool to study virus transmission and infection, National Institutes of Health)

The surface of the flavivirus is composed of a shell made of 180 copies of both an envelope glycoprotein and 1 of 2 other proteins anchored in a lipid membrane.

(Zika virus structure revealed, NIH)

In examining the molecular interactions between black-legged ticks and mammals, the NIAID scientists have learned that flaviviruses reproduce in specific locations in tick salivary gland cultures.

(Tick salivary glands can be a tool to study virus transmission and infection, National Institutes of Health)

Tick salivary glands usually block transmission, but a new study conducted by scientists at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the National Institutes of Health focuses on the role of salivary glands in spreading flaviviruses from black-legged ticks (Ixodes scapularis) to mammals.

(Tick salivary glands can be a tool to study virus transmission and infection, National Institutes of Health)