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- noun Any of several
RNA viruses , of the genusArenavirus , most of which cause severediseases transmitted byrodents
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- noun animal viruses belonging to the family Arenaviridae
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Examples
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The previously unknown arenavirus, which is distantly related to the Lassa virus and Lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus, was characterized using the rapid and sensitive sequencing technology of 454 Life Sciences.
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However, it was still vital to conduct more tests to find out kind of arenavirus it was, he said.
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There were only three cases to go on for the kind of arenavirus now discovered but "it looks like it is very lethal," he said.
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Gustavo Palacios et al., “A new arenavirus in a cluster of fatal transplant-associated diseases,” New England Journal of Medicine 358 2008, 991–998.
The $1,000 Genome Kevin Davies 2010
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A mystery haemorrhagic fever that killed three people in South Africa has been identified as an arenavirus.
Archive 2008-10-01 2008
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Some are brand-new, like the arenavirus that was first found only a few months ago when it caused a handful of deaths in Africa and was genetically sequenced and identified by Ian Lipkin at Columbia University.
The Age of Pandemics 2009
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A new type of arenavirus has been identified as the cause of the deaths of four people since September, specialists at the National
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The virus belongs to the "old world" arenavirus, but until two weeks ago, they did not know they were dealing with a new virus.
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She said tests done by the NICD and the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, US, indicated that the disease seemed to be a kind of an arenavirus.
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The Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa called for urgent measures to prevent further transmission of the arenavirus that left four people dead in recent weeks.
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