viscerotropic in English
adjective
1
(of a microorganism) tending to attack or affect the viscera.
Isolates that cause the respiratory-nervous syndrome, even those that are highly pathogenic, usually produce few or no distinct gross lesions; however, isolates that cause viscerotropic syndrome often do.
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1. Previous experiments employing Aerosolized rabies virus have examined the lethality and the viscerotropic nature of aerosol exposure in laboratory settings [8, 9, 19, 20]
2. In rare cases (less than one in 200,000 to 300,000), the vaccination can cause yellow fever vaccine-associated viscerotropic disease, which is fatal in 60% of cases.