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Rotavirus



Rotavirus
(Ro-ta-vi-rus)
-Kayoki-


noun

1.

A genus (Rotavirus) of double-stranded RNA viruses of the family Reoviridae that have a virion with a three-layered protein capsid, no lipid envelope, and a core of 11 discrete segments of double-stranded RNA and that include one (species Rotavirus A) causing epidemics of severe and sometimes fatal diarrhea in infants and young children worldwide
2.
Any virus of the genus Rotavirus