CV

(virology) circovirus: A virus of the genus Circovirus

(virology) coronavirus: A virus of the genus Coronavirus


PCV

porcine circovirus
porcine circovirus#English

(virology, taxonomy) porcine circovirus: A taxonomic species within the genus Circovirus.


Ad

(virology) adenovirus; Abbreviation of Adenoviridae.


[…] antibody response to Influenza (A2) virus.

1877, John Holmes Dingle, Biographical Memoirs, volume 61 (in English):

(virology) A type of Asian influenza virus.


FIV

(virology, initialism) Feline immunodeficiency virus.


XBB

(virology) A variant of SARS-CoV-2 (“COVID-19 virus”), a sublineage of the Omicron variant (“B.1.1.529”), a recombinant strain resulting from the mixture of BA.2.10.1 and BA.2.75


Group IV

(virology) Positive-sense ssRNA viruses.


(+)ssRNA

(virology) Having a positive-sense, single-stranded RNA genome.


(-)ssRNA

(virology) Negative-sense, single-stranded RNA virus.


→ Lao: ໂຄວິດ-19 (khō wit-19)

→ Samoan: KOVITI-19

→ Thai: โควิด-19

From COVID and the year 2019. The format was established by the World Health Organization (WHO) and is to be used for the names of future outbreaks.

Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus 2#Translingual

(virology, metonymically) Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus 2; the virus which causes the disease.


For quotations using this term, see Citations:SARS-CoV-2.

(virology) Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus 2; a virus which causes COVID-19 coronavirus disease, first discovered in 2019, in an outbreak that started in Wuhan, Hubei, China.


Pandoravirus

English: pandoravirus

Ancient Greek Πανδώρα (Pandṓra, “Pandora”) + -virus.
From Latin virus (“virus”). From the discovery of the virus being akin to opening a Pandora's box of new possibilities in viral research and capabilities. From Pandora, the Greek mythological figure who opened Pandora's box.

suffix

(virology) A taxonomic genus within the family Pandoraviridae – certain giant viruses, DNA viruses which infect amoeba.


HCoV-NH

HCoV + NH. From Homo (“h”)+Coronavirus (“CoV”)+English New Haven (“NH”). From English New Haven coronavirus.

United States of America
United States of America#English

(virology) A coronavirus first discovered in New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, that infects humans.

Kawasaki disease

a disease thought to be caused by HCoV-NH


group D adenovirus
group D adenovirus#English

(virology, immunology, pharmacology, genetic engineering) adenovirus serotype 26, a group D adenovirus; A virus frequently used in recombinant adenovirus-based vaccine vectors


subgroup B adenovirus
subgroup B adenovirus#English

(virology, immunology, pharmacology, genetic engineering) adenovirus serotype 35, a subgroup B adenovirus; A virus frequently used in recombinant adenovirus-based vaccine vectors


type C adenovirus
type C adenovirus#English

(virology, immunology, pharmacology, genetic engineering) adenovirus serotype 5, a type C adenovirus; A virus frequently used in recombinant adenovirus-based vaccine vectors


species D adenovirus
species D adenovirus#English

(virology, immunology, pharmacology, genetic engineering) adenovirus serotype 48, a species D adenovirus; A virus frequently used in recombinant adenovirus-based vaccine vectors


English: lineage B.1.617

English: B.1.617 lineage

The dynamics, molecular interactions, and binding energy of the B.1.1.7 variant (spike N501Y mutant), B.1.617 variant (E484Q and L452R spike mutant), and wild-type (WT) were investigated recently in India using molecular dynamics simulations of three diverse spike-ACE2 complexes.

2023, Laiali Alquraan, Karem H. Alzoubi, Suzie Y. Rababa'h, “Mutations of SARS-CoV-2 and their impact on disease diagnosis and severity”, in Informatics in medicine unlocked, →DOI:

(virology) A virulent variant of the SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus, which causes COVID-19; that has two significant mutations, E484Q and L452R, causing a wave of new infections in India in Spring 2021.


a mutation that results in a glycine at position 614

(virology, COVID-19, informal, by extension) A variant of SARS-CoV-2 COVID-19 Coronavirus carrying this mutation.

(informal) The variant of SARS-CoV-2 that became dominant worldwide outside of China at the start of 2020


English: lineage B.1.617.2

English: B.1.617.2 lineage

The SARS-CoV-2 viruses used to perform the CPE-MN neutralization assay were the original Wuhan SARS-CoV-2 virus (SARS-CoV-2/INMI1-Isolate/2020/Italy: MT066156), SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.7 (INMI GISAID accession number: EPI_ISL_736997), SARS-CoV-2 B.1.351 (EVAg Cod: 014V-04058), B.1.1.248 (EVAg CoD: 014V-04089), and B.1.617.2 (GISAID ID: EPI_ISL_2029113)

2023 January 4, Emanuele Andreano, Ida Paciello, Giulio Pierleoni, Giulia Piccini, Valentina Abbiento, Giada Antonelli, Piero Pileri et al., “B cell analyses after SARS-CoV-2 mRNA third vaccination reveals a hybrid immunity like antibody response”, in Nature Communications, →DOI:

(virology) A virulent variant of the SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus, which causes COVID-19; first detected in India in October 2020, causing a wave of new infections in 2021.


From being a mutant version of the C.1 variant.

(virology) A variant of the SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus, which causes COVID-19, first detected in May 2021 in South Africa


(virology) A virulent variant of the SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus, which causes COVID-19; starting a new wave and becoming dominant in the United Kingdom in late 2021. It is a sublineage of B.1.617.2 (“Delta variant (“Indian variant”)”) with the K417N spike protein mutation.


(virology) A SARSr-CoV-like Betacoronavirus that natively infects horseshoe bats first discovered in Yunnan, China, in 2013. One of the closest wild relatives to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.


(virology) A SARSr-CoV-like Betacoronavirus that natively infects bats first discovered in Laos. One of the closest wild relatives to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.


hMPXV

h- + MPXV; from English human+monkey+pox+virus

Monkeypox virus
Monkeypox virus#Translingual


From being a variant of parent strain XBB.1, itself a variant of XBB

(virology) Kraken variant: A variant of SARS-CoV-2 (“COVID-19 virus”), a sublineage of the Omicron variant (“B.1.1.529”). This variant became dominant in the United States of America at the end of 2022 and start of 2023, and is the most transmissible yet of the major strains as of the turn of the year 2022/2023.


Circovirus

English: circovirus

French: circovirus

(virology, taxonomy) A taxonomic genus within the family Circoviridae.

BFDV

beak and feather disease circovirus, beak and feather disease virus


(virology, medicine, neologism) Human associated circovirus 1: A taxonomic species within the genus Circovirus.; A virus, the first circovirus discovered infecting humans, implicated in causing hepatitis.