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- proper noun A taxonomic
family within theorder Mononegavirales —filoviridas .
Etymologies
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From Latin filum ("thread", "filament") + -viridae
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The professor referred to this case during the lecture "Filoviridae: Ebola and Marburg," within the framework of the IV Conference of Microbiology and Public Health at the San Pablo
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The Marburg virus, like its fearsome cousin Ebola, belongs to the Filoviridae family.
THE MEDICAL NEWS 2010
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ST-669 is SIGA's lead broad-spectrum antiviral candidate compound for viruses in the Poxviridae, Filoviridae, Bunyaviridae, Arenaviridae, Flaviviridae, Togaviridae, Retroviridae, and Picornaviridae families.
News 2009
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