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noun
A single-stranded, negative-sense RNA zoonotic New World hantavirus, first isolated in 1999 in western Panama.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: biology, microbiology, natural-sciences, virology
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Synonyms: CHOV
Antonyms: none provided
History
The virus was first isolated in 2000 from the spleen of a northern pygmy rice rat captured in Las Tablas, Los Santos, and was named after the El Choclo cantina near the city, its name being from Spanish choclo (“corncob; corn”).
