corona-virus

plural corona-viruses

1. alternativeAlternative form of coronavirus.

   [T]he replication of the corona-virus and the herpes-simplex virus is blocked by cystatin C [...]

   1997, Michiel F. J. Blankenvoorde et al., “Antibacterial Activity against Porphyromonas Gingivalis by Cystatins”, in V. K. Hopsu-Havu, M. Järvinen, H. Kirschke, editors, Proteolysis in Cell Functions, Amsterdam: IOS Press, →ISBN, page 532

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   It took four months to identify the culprit of the new disease as a virus of the corona-virus family that had jumped to infect humans from wild small animals handled and consumed as food in the Guangdong province of China.

   2010, Rodolfo Saracci, “What is Epidemiology?”, in Epidemiology: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions), Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, →ISBN

   Especially dangerous are corona-viruses, general factors of "common cold" and reoviruses particularly pestilent for pancreas.

   2012 October, Stanley William (Le) Grys, “Author’s Bleak Afterthoughts”, in Chronic Degenerative Diseases: […], [s.l.]: Ex Propriis-De Visu Research and Development Service, →ISBN, page 14