Choclo virus

English Etymology The virus was first isolated in 2000 from the spleen of a northern pygmy rice rat Oligoryzomys fulvescens captured in Las Tablas, Los Santos, and was named after the El Choclo cantina near the city, its name being from en es choclo corncob; corn. Noun Choclo virus ~ en virology A single-stranded, negative-sense RNA zoonotic New World hantavirus, first isolated in 1999 in western Panama. en CHOV initialism en 2002 Gregory J. Mertz Bunyaviridae:Bunyaviruses, Phleboviruses, Nairoviruses, and Hantaviruses Douglas D. Richman; Richard J. Whitley; Frederick G. Hayden Clinical Virology 2nd Washington, D.C. ASM Press section II (The Agents), part B (RNA Viruses) 926 https://archive.org/details/clinicalvirology2edunse_t9y0/page/926/mode/1up 2 1-55581-226-0 In Panama, Choclo virus was identified in patients and in the likely host, Oligoryzomys fulvenscens, in an outbreak that began in January 2000 (144). See also en Panama fever Further reading en terms derived from toponyms