Choclo viruses

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