betacoronavirus

noun

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Wiktionary

noun

Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Betacoronavirus.

Any member of the genus Betacoronavirus.
“The recent outbreak of severe respiratory tract infections associated with a novel human group C betacoronavirus originating from Saudi Arabia has drawn global attention to another highly probable “SARS-like” interspecies jumping event of coronavirus (CoV) from animal to human.”
“Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) is the first betacoronavirus lineage C member isolated from humans.”