encephalomyocarditis virus

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• encephalomyocarditis virus disease — a viral disease caused by a cardiovirus that usually occurs in rodents but is transmissible to other animals, especially pigs. It is often clinically inapparent but sometimes causes reproductive failure in young female pigs or… …   Medical dictionary

• encephalomyocarditis — noun Etymology: New Latin Date: 1947 an acute febrile disease especially of swine and some nonhuman primates caused by a picornavirus (species Encephalomyocarditis virus of the genus Cardiovirus) and marked by degeneration and inflammation of… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• Virus — A microorganism smaller than a bacteria, which cannot grow or reproduce apart from a living cell. A virus invades living cells and uses their chemical machinery to keep itself alive and to replicate itself. It may reproduce with fidelity or with… …   Medical dictionary

• EMC virus — encephalomyocarditis virus a virus of the genus Cardiovirus found in Africa, South America, and elsewhere, which causes mild aseptic meningitis in humans and encephalomyocarditis in pigs and certain nonhuman primates. There are several different… …   Medical dictionary

• encephalomyocarditis — Associated encephalitis and myocarditis; often caused by a viral infection such as in poliomyelitis. * * * en·ceph·a·lo·myo·car·di·tis .mī ə kär dīt əs n an acute febrile virus disease that affects numerous vertebrates including humans but is of… …   Medical dictionary

• encephalomyocarditis — enˈsefəlōˌ noun Etymology: New Latin, from encephal + myocarditis : an acute febrile virus disease of various vertebrates that is caused by any of several strains of a picornavirus (genus Cardiovirus) and that causes a serious condition in swine… …   Useful english dictionary

• Hepatitis A virus internal ribosome entry site (IRES) — This family represents the internal ribosome entry site (IRES) of the the Hepatitis A virus. [cite journal | last = Brown | first = EA | coauthors = Zajac AJ, Lemon SM | year = 1994 | title = In vitro characterization of an internal ribosomal… …   Wikipedia

• Columbia SK virus — a strain of encephalomyocarditis virus that was originally isolated from a monkey previously inoculated with the Yale SK strain of poliovirus …   Medical dictionary

• Mengo virus — a strain of encephalomyocarditis virus that was first isolated in Uganda from a monkey with encephalomyelitis, and later from mosquitoes and a mongoose in the same area; it was later found to be the cause of an epizootic disease of pigs in Panama …   Medical dictionary

• MM virus — a strain of encephalomyocarditis virus that was first isolated from the brain of a hamster previously inoculated with material from a human case of paralytic disease …   Medical dictionary

• Cardiovirus — Taxobox name = Cardiovirus virus group = iv familia = Picornaviridae genus = Cardiovirus subdivision ranks = Species subdivision = Encephalomyocarditis virus Theilovirus Cardiovirus is a genus within the family Picornaviridae . The genus is… …   Wikipedia