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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of a genus of picornaviruses, including polioviruses, coxsackieviruses, and echoviruses, that infect the gastrointestinal tract and often spread to other areas of the body, especially the nervous system.
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- noun Any of many
viruses , of the genusEnterovirus , that infect thegastrointestinal tract .
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- noun any of a group of picornaviruses that infect the gastrointestinal tract and can spread to other areas (especially the nervous system)
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Examples
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* The term enterovirus is a general description for viruses that infect and replicate in cells of the gastrointestinal tract.
Chapter 2 1998
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A pathogen called enterovirus was present in 44 of 72 pancreases tested from young people who died less than a year after being diagnosed with diabetes, researchers from Peninsula Medical School, the University of
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The virus is enterovirus, meaning it enters the body through the digestive tract and multiplies in the oropharynx area.
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Children with recent enterovirus infections had three times higher risk for pre-diabetes.
Exercise Boosts Brain Power Ann Lukits 2011
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Previous studies have associated enterovirus infections with type I diabetes and pre-diabetes autoimmunity but the findings weren't conclusive.
Exercise Boosts Brain Power Ann Lukits 2011
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They found type I diabetics were almost 10 times as likely to have had a recent enterovirus infection as non-diabetics and to experience persistent enterovirus infections.
Exercise Boosts Brain Power Ann Lukits 2011
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A prospective study of the role of coxsackie B and other enterovirus infections in the pathogenesis of IDDM.
The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008
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A prospective study of the role of coxsackie B and other enterovirus infections in the pathogenesis of IDDM.
The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008
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* Lin Fang-yue林芳郁: "If we don't get the enterovirus situation under control soon, you'd better start praying."
Jerome Cohen is Outraged Michael Turton 2009
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After the first seven children died in March, local doctors speculated that they were dealing with an enterovirus, a family of viruses that includes polio.
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