arbovirus

American  

[ahr-buh-vahy-ruhs] / ˈɑr bəˌvaɪ rəs /

noun

• arboviruses
  plural

1. any of several groups of RNA-containing viruses that are transmitted by bloodsucking arthropods, as ticks, fleas, or mosquitoes, and may cause encephalitis, yellow fever, or dengue fever.

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arbovirus British  

/ ˈɑːbəʊˌvaɪrəs /

noun

1. any one of a group of viruses that cause such diseases as encephalitis and dengue and are transmitted to humans by arthropods, esp insects and ticks

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arbovirus Scientific  

/ är′bə-vī′rəs /

1. Any of a large group of RNA viruses that are transmitted primarily by arthropods, such as mosquitoes and ticks. The more than 400 species were originally considered to be a single group, but are now divided among four families: Togaviridae, Flaviviridae, Bunyaviridae, and Arenaviridae. These viruses cause a variety of infectious diseases in humans, including rubella, yellow fever, and dengue.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• arboviruses
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of arbovirus

1955–60; ar(thropod-) bo(rne) virus

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Example Sentences

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arbovirus arboviruses

The vast majority of people infected with an arbovirus in Australia develop only mild symptoms, or none at all.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 21, 2023

This would be to engineer the mosquitoes so that arbovirus infections trigger the loss of their tolerance mechanisms, perhaps via the inhibition of Ago2.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2023

Brazil, by far the hardest-hit country in the epidemic, really let its women down, said Dr. Artur Timerman, president of the medical society for dengue and arbovirus specialists there.

From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2017

"Zika was kind of a sleepy, inconsequential arbovirus discovered in the 1940s," says Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

From US News ● Jan. 25, 2016

“We’re deeply concerned about the zika starting a transmission cycle here in south Texas,” said Dr Nikos Vasilakis, an arbovirus researcher at University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 13, 2016

“You might also get the introduction of more exotic arboviruses like Dengue,” says Bas Oude Munnink, a molecular virologist at Erasmus.

From Science Magazine ● Sep. 26, 2023

“These diseases can be difficult to identify: their clinical signs and symptoms can mimic a lot of other diseases, and arboviruses aren’t always at the top of mind for clinicians.”

From Scientific American ● Jul. 31, 2023

The lab has its own insectary, Corley remarked, which hatches mosquitoes to study the transmission of arboviruses, including Zika, dengue and West Nile.

From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2021

“We see it with all of these arboviruses that cause epidemics. They burn out because the virus can’t find enough people to infect.”

From Washington Post ● Nov. 3, 2017

They include Amadou Alpha Sall, who is the scientific director of the Pasteur Institute in Dakar, Senegal, and director of the World Health Organization's Collaborating Center for arboviruses and viral haemorrhagic fever, also in Dakar.

From Nature ● Nov. 9, 2014

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