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Viruses > RNA Viruses > Positive-Strand RNA Viruses > Togaviridae > Rubivirus

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Rubivirus  

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Note

  • a genus of the family Togaviridae; from Latin rub-, red, with reference to the type species RUBELLA VIRUS (Latin rubella, reddish, a disease showing a generalized reddish rash); infection = RUBIVIRUS INFECTIONS

Scope note

  • A genus of the family TOGAVIRIDAE containing only one recognized species, RUBELLA VIRUS. Transmission is primarily by aerosolization.

History note

  • 94; was see RUBELLA VIRUS 1981-93

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D018132

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