pancoronavirus

English

Etymology

From pan- +‎ coronavirus.

Adjective

pancoronavirus (not comparable)

1. Relating to all coronaviruses.
   • 2007 June, “Coronaviruses in Children, Greece”, in Emerging Infectious Diseases, volume 13, number 6, page 947:

     In 2005, an optimized pancoronavirus reverse transcription–PCR assay was used to explore the incidence of HCoV-NL63 infection in children in Belgium who had a diagnosis of respiratory tract infection.

   • 2008, Dave Cavanagh, SARS- and Other Coronaviruses: Laboratory Protocols, page 4:

     We designed a novel pancoronavirus RT-PCR in which we modified the coronavirus consensus RT-PCR primers based on an alignment of the HCoV-NL63 sequence and the corresponding sequences of 13 other coronaviruses.

   • 2016 November 18, Heydar Khalili Bagaloy, “Detection of pancoronavirus using PCR in Camelus dromedarius in Iran (first report)”, in Comparative Clinical Pathology:

     Pancoronavirus RNA was observed in seven cases among 98 nasal swab samples.