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bunyavirus

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Etymology edit

From Bunyamwera, a town in Western Uganda where one of the viruses was first isolated.

Noun edit

bunyavirus (plural bunyaviruses)

  1. (archaic) Any of the Bunyaviridae, a family of negative-stranded RNA viruses, now most typically in genus Orthobunyavirus in family Peribunyaviridae, but also in all families in order Bunyavirales.

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