Choclo virus

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Etymology

The virus was first isolated in 2000 from the spleen of a northern pygmy rice rat captured in Las Tablas, Los Santos, and was named after the El Choclo cantina near the city, its name being from Spanish choclo (“corncob; corn”).

Noun

Choclo virus (countable and uncountable, plural Choclo viruses)

  1. (virology) A single-stranded, negative-sense RNA zoonotic New World hantavirus, first isolated in 1999 in western Panama.
    Synonym: CHOV (initialism)
    • 2002, Gregory J. Mertz, “Bunyaviridae: […]”, in Douglas D. Richman, Richard J. Whitley, Frederick G. Hayden, editors, Clinical Virology, 2nd edition, Washington, D.C.: ASM Press, →ISBN, section II (The Agents), part B (RNA Viruses), page 926, column 2:
      In Panama, Choclo virus was identified in patients and in the likely host, Oligoryzomys fulvenscens, in an outbreak that began in January 2000 (144).

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