Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To assort again; to assort repeatedly.
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Examples
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"When respiratory viruses get into these confinement facilities, they have continual opportunity to replicate, mutate, reassort, and recombine into novel strains," Gray explains.
Paula Crossfield: Unchecked Swine Flu, (Sick?) CAFO Workers and Lax Regulation, Oh My 2009
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"Pigs actually serve as a wonderful mixing vessel for influenza viruses to reassort," the CDC's Nancy Cox told The Washington Post.
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It would be most disturbing if the 2008 H1N1 human virus were to reassort with the new swine/human virus, as we could then be facing a more drug-resistant pandemic strain of influenza, treatable only with the drug Relenza, which must be administered with an inhaler device.
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To reach pandemic status, the virus would reassort with another influenza virus within a person, thereby learning person-to-person transmission.
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To reach pandemic status, the virus would reassort with another influenza virus within a person, thereby learning person-to-person transmission.
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Or the virus can combine or reassort as it's called with a regular flu virus, which of course the flu viruses, typical ones, can transmit easily among people.
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Pandemic viruses get started when they reassort and they emerge as a new virus.
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However, the new findings raise concerns that H5N1 and pandemic H1N1 viruses could reassort in individuals exposed to both viruses and generate an influenza strain that is both highly virulent and contagious.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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Two viruses infecting a single host cell can swap genetic material, or reassort, creating hybrid strains with characteristics of each parent virus.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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The NA of H5N1 (A/Anhui/1/2005) could hardly reassort with the HAs of the two H1N1 viruses.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Yonghui Zhang et al. 2010
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