Virus
henipavirus
Subclass of:
Paramyxovirinae
Definitions related to henipavirus:
  • A genus in the subfamily PARAMYXOVIRINAE, family PARAMYXOVIRIDAE. It contains species that infect and cause potentially fatal disease in a number of host species, including humans.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
  • A genus of enveloped, pleomorphically spherical viruses in the family Paramyxoviridae. The genome is composed of a linear single-strand of negative sense RNA. The Henipavirus natural reservoir is considered to be fruit bats of the Pteropodidae family and cause influenza-like illness in humans.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • Any viral organism that can be assigned to the genus Henipavirus.
    CDISC Terminology
    Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
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