Ebolavirus
See also: ebolavirus and Ebola virus
Translingual
Etymology
New Latin, from English Ebola River + -virus. Reports conflict about who initially coined the name: either Karl Johnson of the American Centers for Disease Control[1] or Belgian researchers.[2]
Proper noun
Ebolavirus
- A taxonomic genus within the family Filoviridae – the viral cause of Ebola fever, a human hemorrhagic fever with high mortality, causing epidemics commencing in tropical Africa.
Hypernyms
- (genus): Riboviria – realm; Orthornavirae – kingdom; Negarnaviricota – phylum; Haploviricotina – subphylum; Monjiviricetes – class; Mononegavirales – order; Filoviridae – family
Hyponyms
- (genus): Zaire ebolavirus - type species; Bombali ebolavirus, Bundibugyo ebolavirus, Reston ebolavirus, Sudan ebolavirus, Tai Forest ebolavirus - other species
References
- Ebolavirus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Ebolavirus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Category:Ebolavirus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- Ebolavirus at International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses
- ^ Preston, Richard (20 July 1995) The Hot Zone, Anchor Books (Random House), page 117: “Karl Johnson named it Ebola”
- ^ Bredow, Rafaela von, Hackenbroch, Veronika (4 October 2014) “'In 1976 I Discovered Ebola – Now I Fear an Unimaginable Tragedy'”, in The Observer[1], Guardian Media Group