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Definition of Alphavirus
1. Noun. An arbovirus of the family Togaviridae that can cause a variety of encephalitis in horses.
Definition of Alphavirus
1. Noun. Any virus of the genus ''Alphavirus'' ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Alphavirus
1. A genus of togaviridae, also known as group a arboviruses, serologically related to each other but not to other togaviridae. The viruses are transmitted by mosquitoes. The type species is the sindbis virus. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Alphavirus
Literary usage of Alphavirus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Computational Biology: Hearing Before the Committee on Commerce, Science edited by Conrad Burns (1996)
"For cells in culture, expression from alphavirus vectors has generated proteins
from cloned sequences as 25% of the cell protein. ..."
2. Ensuring an Infectious Disease Workforce: Education and Training Needs for by Stacey Knobler (2006)
"alphavirus Replicons Splitting cDNA copies of alpha virus RNA genomes makes it
possible to insert a gene for a foreign protein into a segment that also ..."
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