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Glossary entry

français term or phrase:

virus des vertébrés

anglais translation:

vertebrate viruses

Added to glossary by Hollie Lanyon
Sep 7, 2012 10:03
11 yrs ago
français term

virus des vertébrés d'origine humaine

français vers anglais Sciences Sciences (général) Viruses
The full heading is: "L'activité virucide vis à vis des virus des vertébrés d'origine humaine" and is found in product testing reports (testing to see whether a particular product shows signs of virucidal activity in this context).

Firstly, I'm undecided as to whether "d'origine humaine" is referring to "virus" or "vertébrés". My initial translation was "Virucidal activity against human viruses" but I'm not sure if this is too reduced and if "vertébrés" should really be translated.

Any suggestions would be gratefully received.
Proposed translations (anglais)
4 vertebrate viruses of human origin

Discussion

rkillings Sep 9, 2012:
Yep, virologists do talk about "vertebrate viruses" -- not to qualify the nature of the virus but to indicate the kind of host it infects.
They can get away with this sloppy use of language because we all know viruses are not even complete organisms, much less vertebrate or invertebrate organisms.
Bertrand Leduc Sep 7, 2012:
Thank you for your comment, that makes a lot of sense, however, in my experience viruses are referred to as: DNA viruses, insect viruses, swine viruses etc, so vertebrate here is used like adjective to qualify the nature of the virus.
EvaVer (X) Sep 7, 2012:
certainly to the virus! and rather vertebrates' viruses, it looks like the viruses themselves were vertebrate-:)
Bertrand Leduc Sep 7, 2012:
My pleasure Hollie!

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vertebrate viruses of human origin



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Note added at 18 mins (2012-09-07 10:21:37 GMT)
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mentioning vertebrate here, is essential, as it is refering specifically to viruses affecting vertebrates (not invertebrates, bacteria ....).

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Note added at 21 mins (2012-09-07 10:24:42 GMT)
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human viruses can be transmitted to other organisms like pigs (and often undergo mutations), hence the human origin!

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Note added at 22 mins (2012-09-07 10:25:51 GMT)
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http://www.reference.md/files/D014/mD014712.html

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Note added at 24 mins (2012-09-07 10:27:38 GMT)
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a virus in swine from human origin:
http://www.plospathogens.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journa...
Note from asker:
Thank you so much for the clarification Bertrand.
And thank you for these fantastic resources!
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