Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of a group of filamentous RNA viruses of the family Filoviridae, including Ebola and Marburg viruses, that are characterized by elongated, branched, curved, or spherical virions and that cause hemorrhagic fevers.
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- noun Any
virus of thefamily Filoviridae .
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- noun animal viruses belonging to the family Filoviridae
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Ebola and the Marburg virus are the two main categories of so-called filovirus which causes haemorrhagic fever (VHF), a disease dubbed a "slate-wiper" for its extreme lethality.
The Times of India 2008
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Had the then-67-year-old Hoffman — who brought mainstream culture face to face with autism in Rain Man and went mano a mano with an Ebola-like filovirus in Outbreak — never quite broken character from his 1982 film Tootsie?
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Dot indicates significant viral outbreakEbola (filovirus) With a fatality rate of up to 90 percent, it killed hundreds in Zaire and western Sudan in 1976 and 1979.
Outbreak Of Fear 2008
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Marburg (filovirus) Closely related to Ebola, this virus was identified in 1967 when 31 people were infected in West Germany and Yugoslavia by Ugandan green monkeys. 7 died.
Outbreak Of Fear 2008
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The filovirus is nice, but personally, I've always preferred parasites.
a year older and an hour shorter Holly 2005
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Yeah, okay, 'talk to the filovirus' doesn't have the same ring, I know... and I've really got to get off this microbe thing.
a year older and an hour shorter Holly 2005
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So the huggable, squeezable, soft plush filovirus is right out?
a year older and an hour shorter Holly 2005
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Studies to identify the reservoir of Marburg virus, a closely related filovirus are being conducted in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Chapter 7 2000
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It suggests that these species, which maintain a filovirus infection without negative health consequences, could have selectively maintained these so-called "fossil" genes as a genetic defense.
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"We need to identify it because once a filovirus hits humans, it can be deadly."
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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