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Choclo virus

Choclo virus noun: a single-stranded, negative-sense RNA zoonotic New World hantavirus, first isolated in 1999 in western Panama.

Noun

Choclo virus (countable and uncountable, plural Choclo viruses)

  1. A single-stranded, negative-sense RNA zoonotic New World hantavirus, first isolated in 1999 in western Panama.
    • In Panama, Choclo virus was identified in patients and in the likely host, Oligoryzomys fulvenscens, in an outbreak that began in January 2000 (144).2002, Gregory J. Mertz, “Bunyaviridae: […]”, in Douglas D. Richman, Richard J. Whitley, Frederick G. Hayden, editors, Clinical Virology, 2nd edition, Washington, D.C.: ASM Press, →ISBN, section II...
    Synonyms:
    CHOV

Synonyms of Choclo virus

Forms of Choclo virus

pluralChoclo viruses

Origin of Choclo virus

The virus was first isolated in 2000 from the spleen of a northern pygmy rice rat captured in Las Tablas, Los Santos, and was named after the El Choclo cantina near the city, its name being from Spanish choclo (“corncob; corn”).

Questions about Choclo virus

What does Choclo virus mean?
Choclo virus means a single-stranded, negative-sense RNA zoonotic New World hantavirus, first isolated in 1999 in western Panama.
What part of speech is Choclo virus?
Choclo virus is a noun.
What is the plural of Choclo virus?
The plural of Choclo virus is Choclo viruses.

Words near Choclo virus in the dictionary

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