Virus
equine morbillivirus
Subclass of:
Henipavirus
Definitions related to hendra virus:
  • A species of enveloped and pleomorphic viruses in the Paramyxoviridae family and Henipavirus genus. The genome is composed of non-segmented, negative-sense, single-stranded RNA. Hendra viruses are found naturally in Pteropid fruit bats, and are zoonotic pathogens in domestic animals (mainly in horses) and humans. Hendra viruses cause respiratory diseases, meningitis and fatal encephalitis in humans.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • A species of HENIPAVIRUS first identified in Australia in 1994 in HORSES and transmitted to humans. The natural host appears to be fruit bats (PTEROPUS).
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
  • Any viral organism that can be assigned to the species Hendra virus.
    CDISC Terminology
    Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
  • (equine morbillivirus) Species of Henipavirus first identified in Australia in 1994 in horses and transmitted to humans; the natural host appears to be fruit bats (Pteropus).
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
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