flavivirus
Britishnoun
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Named after the town in Ontario, Canada, where it was first identified in 1958 in a 5-year-old boy who died from encephalitis, Powassan virus is a flavivirus related to West Nile and other mosquito-borne viruses.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 26, 2024
Zika is a flavivirus, a family that includes dengue and Japanese encephalitis, which are also transmitted by mosquitoes.
From New York Times ● Jun. 26, 2018
“Zika allowed for a homogeneous sample of a flavivirus — and when we understand one a little bit better, we understand them all a bit better.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 26, 2018
Fifty-six suspected cases of Guillain-Barre were reported the first seven months of 2016, of which 34 were linked to infection with Zika or an unspecified flavivirus.
From US News ● Aug. 26, 2016
However, the contribution of the E protein to flavivirus pathobiology is currently not understood.
From Nature ● Apr. 18, 2016
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