Meanings
plural Choclo viruses
- countableuncountablebiologyA single-stranded, negative-sense RNA zoonotic New World hantavirus, first isolated in 1999 in western Panama.
In Panama, Choclo virus was identified in patients and in the likely host, Oligoryzomys fulvenscens, in an outbreak that began in January 2000 (144).
2002, Gregory J. Mertz, “Bunyaviridae: […]”, in Douglas D. Richman, Richard J. Whitley, Frederick G. Hayden, editors, Clinical Virology, 2nd edition, Washington, D.C.: ASM Press, →ISBN, section II (The Agents), part B (RNA Viruses), page 926, column 2Synonyms: CHOV
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA single-stranded, negative-sense RNA zoonotic New World hantavirus, first isolated in 1999 in western Panama.
Origin
- Spanishchoclo“corncob; corn”
- EnglishChoclo virus
The virus was first isolated in 2000 from the spleen of a northern pygmy rice rat captured in Las Tablas, Los Santos, and was named after the El Choclo cantina near the city, its name being from Spanish choclo (“corncob; corn”).
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