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hantaviruses

hantaviruses is the plural of hantavirus.

Meaning of hantavirus

Noun

hantavirus (plural hantaviruses)

  1. Any virus of the genus Hantavirus, transmitted by aerosolized rodent excreta or rodent bites, especially the deer mouse. Hantaviruses cause Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS): incubation lasts for 1–5 weeks, sickness begins with fever and muscle aches, followed by shortness of breath and coughing.
    • To reveal the molecular epidemiology of hantaviruses in this region, a total of 374 small mammals (eight species of rodents and one species of shrew) were captured in the Chinese part of the Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island (Heilongjiang Province).[…] Overall, these results suggest that Bolshoy Ussuriysky...2014, Cai-QiaoWang et al., “Co-circulation of Hantaan, Kenkeme, and Khabarovsk Hantaviruses in Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island, China”, in Virus Research, volume 191, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC

Questions about hantaviruses

What is hantaviruses the plural of?
Hantaviruses is the plural of hantavirus.

Words near hantaviruses in the dictionary

  1. hant
  2. Hant's Harbour
  3. Hantai
  4. hantaviral
  5. hantavirus
  6. hantaviruses
  7. hanted
  8. hantel
  9. hantels
  10. Hanthorpe
  11. hanting

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