rotavirus

Definitions

Any of a group of wheel-shaped viruses, of the genus Rotavirus, that causes gastroenteritis and diarrhea in children and animals.

Equivalents

Examples

“We propose⟳ therefore that these reovirus-like or orbivirus-like enteritis viruses of calves and children are in a group separate⟳ from both orbiviruses and reoviruses, and we suggest⟳ that the term “rotavirus” (from the Latin rota, a wheel) should be used for them.”

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