noncoronavirus meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

noncoronavirus

adj

Etymology From non- + coronavirus.

Biology, Microbiology, Natural sciences, Virology Not pertaining to coronaviruses; noncoronaviral.

Taken together, the results of this study demonstrated for the first time that the BCV genome contains a sequence that functions as a packaging signal, at least when appended to a noncoronavirus RNA.2000 January, Raymond Cologna, Brenda G. Hogue, “Identification of a Bovine Coronavirus Packaging Signal”, in Journal of Virology, volume 74, number 1, →DOI, page 582:
Fort Carson soldiers worked Thursday to convert a Seattle football stadium into a 250-bed hospital that will treat noncoronavirus patients so that civilian hospitals can focus on those with the deadly, flu-like disease.2020 April 2, Tom Roeder, “Fort Carson soldiers turn Seattle stadium into coronavirus relief hospital”, in The Gazette, Colorado Springs, CO:

noun

Etymology From non- + coronavirus.

Biology, Microbiology, Natural sciences, Virology That which is not a coronavirus.

The SARS virus is a coronavirus, which is significantly different from other human coronaviruses. There is no evidence of exchange of genetic material with noncoronaviruses.2010, Michael Beach, “Pandemics”, in Disaster Preparedness and Management, Philadelphia: F.A. Davis Company, →ISBN, page 153:
It is unknown whether this signal of positive selection results from the MERS-CoV progenitor, from another DPP4-utilizing bat coronavirus, such as BtCoV-HKU4, or from a noncoronavirus that also utilizes DPP4.2015, Kayla M. Peck, Christina L. Burch, Mark T. Heise, Ralph S. Baric, “Coronavirus Host Range Expansion and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Emergence: Biochemical Mechanisms and Evolutionary Perspectives”, in Annual Review of Virology, volume 2, number 1, →DOI, page 99:

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