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ENTEROVIRUS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of a group of picornaviruses that infect the gastrointestinal tract and can spread to other areas (especially the nervous system)
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("enterovirus" is a kind of...):
picornavirus (a group of single-strand RNA viruses with a protein coat)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "enterovirus"):
poliovirus (the virus causing poliomyelitis)
hepatitis A virus (the virus causing hepatitis A)
Coxsackie virus; coxsackievirus (enterovirus causing a disease resembling poliomyelitis but without paralysis)
echovirus (any of a group of viruses associated with various diseases including viral meningitis and mild respiratory disorders and diarrhea in newborn infants)
Context examples:
The team developed a microchip assay, AFM-SeroChip-1, that detects the presence of antibodies generated in response to any human enterovirus (EV-A, EV-B, EV-C or EV-D) infection.
(Enterovirus antibodies detected in acute flaccid myelitis patients, National Institutes of Health)
The researchers first looked for direct evidence of enterovirus infection in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of 13 children and one adult diagnosed with AFM in 2018.
(Enterovirus antibodies detected in acute flaccid myelitis patients, National Institutes of Health)
They found enteroviral genetic material (EV-A71) in only the one adult AFM case and genetic material from another enterovirus (echovirus 25) in one of the non-AFM cases.
(Enterovirus antibodies detected in acute flaccid myelitis patients, National Institutes of Health)
Despite the epidemiological link between enterovirus circulation and AFM cases, evidence of direct causality has not been found.
(Enterovirus antibodies detected in acute flaccid myelitis patients, National Institutes of Health)
Spikes in AFM cases, primarily in children, have coincided in time and location with outbreaks of EV-D68 and a related enterovirus, EV-A71.
(Enterovirus antibodies detected in acute flaccid myelitis patients, National Institutes of Health)
A new study analyzing samples from patients with and without acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) provides additional evidence for an association between the rare but often serious condition that causes muscle weakness and paralysis, and infection with non-polio enteroviruses.
(Enterovirus antibodies detected in acute flaccid myelitis patients, National Institutes of Health)
