coronavirologist

plural coronavirologists

1. biologyA scientist who studies coronaviruses.

   Evidently, this will be the major challenge for coronavirologists in the years to come.

   1995, S. Siddell, The Coronaviridae, page 134

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   Coronaviruses were declared a distinct virus group by Tyrrell and an international group of coronavirologists in 1968, on the basis of their appearance under the electron microscope after negative staining, ether lability and RNA content.

   1987, Susan Gale Robbins, Molecular Interactions in the Replication of Mouse Hepatitis Virus

   As a coronavirologist, I am tempted to translate the eponymic prefix as ‘crown’ and confer the regal attribute to my favourite viruses.

   2004 April 1, Marian C Horzinek, “The bright future of coronavirology”, in Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery

   Before the emergence of the original SARS, the study of coronaviruses was a professional backwater. “There has been such a deluge of attention on we coronavirologists,” said Susan R. Weiss, a virologist at the University of Pennsylvania. “It is quite in contrast to previously being mostly ignored.”

   2020 June 2, Alan Burdick, “Monster or Machine? A Profile of the Coronavirus at 6 Months”, in The New York Times