LASSA VIRUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Lassa virus mean? 

• LASSA VIRUS (noun)
  The noun LASSA VIRUS has 1 sense:

1. the RNA virus that causes Lassa fever

  Familiarity information: LASSA VIRUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LASSA VIRUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The RNA virus that causes Lassa fever

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Lassa virus" is a kind of...):

arenavirus (animal viruses belonging to the family Arenaviridae)

Holonyms ("Lassa virus" is a member of...):

Arenaviridae (a family of arborviruses carried by arthropods)

 Context examples 

The researchers now plan further vaccine tests against other strains of Lassa virus, and they want to further evaluate whether a single-dose quadrivalent vaccine appears safe and effective.

(Study vaccine protects monkeys against four types of hemorrhagic fever viruse, National Institutes of Health)

The proteins are from Ebola virus (Kikwit strain), Sudan virus (Boniface strain, which also causes Ebola virus disease), Marburg virus (Angola strain) and Lassa virus (Josiah strain).

(Study vaccine protects monkeys against four types of hemorrhagic fever viruse, National Institutes of Health)

The scientists state that the addition of the Lassa virus component to their multivalent vaccine is an exciting research advance as they already had developed an investigational trivalent vaccine that provided protection against Ebola, Sudan and Marburg viruses.

(Study vaccine protects monkeys against four types of hemorrhagic fever viruse, National Institutes of Health)

Importantly, the monkeys infected in the study were exposed to different strains of Sudan virus (Gulu) and Lassa virus (0043/LV/14) than those in the candidate vaccine to help the researchers determine whether the vaccine would be cross-protective.

(Study vaccine protects monkeys against four types of hemorrhagic fever viruse, National Institutes of Health)