poliovirus Med.
(ˈpəʊlɪəʊvaɪərəs)
Also polio virus.
[f. polio + virus.]
Any of a group of enteroviruses that includes those that cause the various forms of poliomyelitis. Also attrib.
| [1954 Nature 3 Apr. 621/1 Proposed ‘non-Linnæan’ binomials for some animal viruses... Poliovirus hominis (human poliomyelitis). Poliovirus muris (mouse encephalomyelitis, TO type).] 1955 Virology I. 186 (heading) The poliovirus group. 1958 Economist 26 July 283 To achieve that we must apparently wait for the successful development of vaccines made from live attenuated polioviruses. 1961, 1965 [see ECHO virus]. 1968 Rhodes & van Rooyen Textbk. Virol. (ed. 5) v. iii. 541 The feature distinguishing polioviruses from other members of the enterovirus group is their capacity to produce poliomyelitis in man and other primates. 1970 Passmore & Robson Compan. Med. Stud. II. xviii. 113/2 At the beginning of the century, infection with poliovirus was widespread among children under 5 years of age, but only an occasional patient developed the typical infantile paralysis. 1973 R. G. Krueger et al. Introd. Microbiol. xix. 528/1 Polio virus will adsorb to certain cells of certain organs of primates but not to nonprimate cells. |
Hence ˈpolioviral a.
| 1977 Lancet 19 Feb. 434/1 Polioviral antigen has been detected in 3 patients. |