noun
- a type of RNA virus that can infect humans and animals, often causing respiratory or gastrointestinal illness
Usage: medical; virology
Examples
- The laboratory identified a reovirus as the cause of the outbreak.
- Reoviruses are commonly found in the respiratory and intestinal tracts.
- Scientists are studying how reovirus infections spread in populations.
- The patient’s symptoms were consistent with a reovirus infection.
- Reoviruses can survive in the environment for extended periods.
- Researchers isolated the reovirus from contaminated water samples.