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| Domain | Definition |
Health | A genus of the family Filoviridae containing two species: Ebola virus and Marburg virus. Both were originally associated with African monkeys but are capable of causing severe hemorrhagic disease in humans. The natural host of either virus is unknown. Transmission is by close personal contact. (references) |
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Crosswords: FILOVIRUS |
| Specialty definitions using "FILOVIRUS": Filoviridae, Filovirus Infections ♦ Marburg Virus. (references) |
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 | The Ebola virus is a member of Filovirus family. It is known to be spread through close contact with an infected host. Mortality rates of an individual with Hemorrhagic fever range from 50-90%. Credit: CDC. |  | Map of Africa showing locations of reported cases of filovirus infection. Credit: CDC. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The four species of Ebola virus are the only other known members of the filovirus family. (references) | |
Structurally, filovirus virions (complete viral particles) may appear in several shapes, a biological feature called pleomorphism. (references) | ||
When close contact between uninfected and infected persons is minimized, the number of new filovirus infections in humans usually declines. (references) | ||
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Expression using "FILOVIRUS": Filovirus Infections. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
filovirus | 9 |
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| Language | Translations for "FILOVIRUS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | filovirus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | filovirus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | filovirus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Filovirus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | filovirus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ilovirusfay Filoviridae, filovírus. (various references) filovirus, Filoviridae. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Filoviridae. (various references) |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-i-i-l-o-r-s-u-v" | |
-2 letters: frivols. | |
-3 letters: flours, fluors, frivol. | |
-4 letters: filos, flour, fluor, foils, fouls, fours, furls, fusil, loris, louis, lours, roils, rolfs, sulfo, viols, virls, virus, visor. | |
-5 letters: filo, fils, firs, flus, foil, foul, four, furl, furs, iris, liri, lour, luvs, oils, ours, rifs, roil, rolf, silo, slur, soil, soli, sori, soul, sour, surf, viol, virl. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-i-i-l-o-r-s-u-v" | |
+3 letters: griseofulvin, viruliferous. | |
+4 letters: griseofulvins. | |
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