| NIRS | near-infrared spectroscopy; normal inactivated rabbit serum |
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| NRS | neurobehavioral rating scale; normal rabbit serum; normal reference serum; numerical rating scale |
| NZR | New Zealand red [rabbit] |
| PRK | photorefractive keratectomy; primary rabbit kidney |
| RABA | rabbit antibladder antibody |
| CELO virus | <virology> A virus with characteristics of adenovirus, and similar to quail bronchitis virus. Synonym: chicken embryo lethal orphan virus. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| medi virus | A retrovirus (subfamily Lentivirinae) that is the cause of maedi; it is very similar to the visna virus Synonym: medi virus, progressive pneumonia virus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Central European tick-borne encephalitis virus | One of the virus's of the tick-borne encephalitis complex of group B arboviruses (genus Flavivirus); the causative agent of tick-borne encephalitis (Central European subtype). (05 Mar 2000) |
| respiratory enteric orphan virus | A nonenveloped icosahedral virus whose genome consists of double stranded RNA, belonging to the family Reoviridae, frequently found in both the respiratory and enteric tract. Synonym: REO virus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| respiratory syncytial virus | <virology> This RNA virus is a member of the Paramyxoviridae family and is a major pathogen in the upper and lower respiratory tract in both infants and younger children. Respiratory syncytial virus manifestations include bronchiolitis, pneumonia and croup. Acronym: RSV (27 Sep 1997) |
| respiratory syncytial virus, bovine | A species of pneumovirus causing an important respiratory infection in cattle. Symptoms include fever, conjunctivitis, and respiratory distress. (12 Dec 1998) |
| respiratory syncytial virus, human | The type species of pneumovirus and an important cause of lower respiratory disease in infants and young children. It frequently presents with bronchitis and bronchopneumonia and is further characterised by fever, cough, dyspnea, wheezing, and pallor. (12 Dec 1998) |
| respiratory syncytial virus infections | Pneumovirus infections caused by the respiratory syncytial viruses. Humans and cattle are most affected but infections in goats and sheep have been reported. (12 Dec 1998) |
| VS virus | <virology> Rhabdovirus causing the disease soremouth in cattle. Widely used as a laboratory tool especially in studies on the spike glycoprotein as a model for the synthesis, post translational modification and export of membrane proteins. (18 Nov 1997) |
| reticuloendotheliosis virus, avian | A species of reticuloendotheliosis viruses of the genus retroviruses type b, mammalian that causes a chronic neoplastic and a more acute immunosuppressive disease in fowl. (12 Dec 1998) |
| goatpox virus | A virus of the genus Capripoxvirus; the cause of goatpox. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Mengo virus | <virology> A strain of encephalomyocarditis virus, a species of cardiovirus, isolated from rodents and lagomorphs and occasionally causing febrile illness in man. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Chagres virus | A virus in the family Bunyaviridae, an agent of bunyavirus encephalitis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Graffi's virus | A mouse myeloleukaemia virus from filtrates of transplantable tumours; possibly related to Gross' virus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| chicken anaemia virus | The type species of circovirus, a small, non-enveloped DNA virus originally isolated from contaminated vaccines in japan. It causes chicken infectious anaemia and may possibly play a key role in haemorrhagic anaemia syndrome, anaemia dermatitis, and blue wing disease. (12 Dec 1998) |