Rota virusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Latin rota (“wheel”) + virus. The name was first proposed in July 1974 in an article in The Lancet.^[1]

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹəʊtəˌvaɪɹəs/

名詞

rotavirus (複数形 rotaviruses)

1. Any of a group of wheel-shaped viruses, of the genus Rotavirus, that causes gastroenteritis and diarrhea in children and animals.
   • [1974 July 13, Flewett, T. H., Bryden, A. S., Davies, H., Woode, G. N., Bridger, J. C., Derrick, J. M., “Relation between viruses from acute gastroenteritis of children and newborn calves”, in The Lancet, volume 304, number 7872, DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(74)91631-6, page 63:

     We propose therefore that these reovirus-like or orbivirus-like enteritis viruses of calves and children are in a group separate from both orbiviruses and reoviruses, and we suggest that the term “rotavirus” (from the Latin rota, a wheel) should be used for them.]

派生語

同意語

• duovirus (dated)

参照

Further reading

• rotavirus on Wikipedia.
• Rotavirus on Wikispecies.