crown virus

plural crown viruses

1. rarebiologyA member of the family Coronaviridae; a coronavirus.

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   Inventions: 14 (9); e.g.: specific gamma-globulin against Auesky disease; ethanol vaccine against Auesky disease, bivalent vaccine against parainfection and adenoviruses of calves; inactivated vaccine against rhinotracheitis of cattle; three-valent serum against respiratory diseases of calves; vaccine against crown virus of calves, etc.

   1993, “Haralambiev, Haralambi Evtimov”, in Who's who: Bulgaria '93, Sofia: Inter-idea, page 114

   Primarily the work of Hildebert Wagner at the Institute for Pharmaceutical Biology, Munich, and Klaus Keplinger at Innsbruck University, studies revealed that cat's claw was antiviral in the feline crown virus, the lamb Maed visna virus, human herpesvirus, and effective against neurobronchitis and allergies.

   2000, Herbal Companion to AHFS DI 2001, Bethesda, MD: American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, →ISBN, page 15

   At the same time, a combination of α-interferon and ribavirin has been turned out to be efficient at the treatment of the widely distributed viral hepatitis C; this combination could also be promising for the therapy of the recent outbreak of the RNA-viral infection of atypical pneumonia induced by a crown virus.

   2004, Konstantinova, I.D., Leont'eva, N.A., Galegov, G.A. et al., “Ribavirin: Biotechnological Synthesis and Effect on the Reproduction of Vaccinia Virus”, in Russian Journal of Bioorganic Chemistry, volume 30, number 6, →DOI, page 556