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  • proper noun A taxonomic family within the order Mononegaviralesfiloviridas.

Etymologies

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From Latin filum ("thread", "filament") +‎ -viridae

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Examples

  • The professor referred to this case during the lecture "Filoviridae: Ebola and Marburg," within the framework of the IV Conference of Microbiology and Public Health at the San Pablo

    Wildlife Disease News Digest 2010

  • The Marburg virus, like its fearsome cousin Ebola, belongs to the Filoviridae family.

    THE MEDICAL NEWS 2010

  • ST-669 is SIGA's lead broad-spectrum antiviral candidate compound for viruses in the Poxviridae, Filoviridae, Bunyaviridae, Arenaviridae, Flaviviridae, Togaviridae, Retroviridae, and Picornaviridae families.

    News 2009

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