Virus
enterovirus Audio
en·ter·o·vi·rus [ en-tuh-roh-vahy-ruhs ]
Subclass of:
Family Picornaviridae
Definitions related to enterovirus:
  • A (+) strand single strand RNA virus of the picornavirus family. Poliovirus is an enterovirus.
    NCI
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • A genus of the family PICORNAVIRIDAE whose members preferentially inhabit the intestinal tract of a variety of hosts. The genus contains many species. Newly described members of human enteroviruses are assigned continuous numbers with the species designated human enterovirus.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025
  • Any viral organism that can be assigned to the genus Enterovirus.
    CDISC Terminology
    Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
  • Viruses infect vertebrates including man, monkeys, pigs and cows; primarily infect the gastrointestinal tract but also multiply in nerve, muscle, etc.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • The human enteroviruses are ubiquitous viruses that are transmitted from person to person via direct contact with virus shed from the gastrointestinal or upper respiratory tract. The enteroviruses belong to the Picornaviridae family of viruses and are traditionally divided into 5 subgenera based on differences in host range and...
    Medscape
    WebMD, 2025
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