How to Use rhinovirus in a Sentence

rhinovirus

noun
  • In the past, rhinovirus and enterovirus have been culprits.
    Julia Belluz, Vox, 30 Oct. 2018
  • Women who have not yet gone through menopause had a stronger immune response to rhinovirus than those from men of the same age.
    Max Londberg, kansascity, 12 Dec. 2017
  • The cold, which is usually caused by the rhinovirus, comes in many different forms.
    Nathan Bomey, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2020
  • But the rhinovirus, the most ubiquitous cause of the common cold, is the challenger every athlete here has been dreading.
    David Segal, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2018
  • Four of the eight samples contained the rhinovirus or adenovirus, which both cause cold-like symptoms.
    Martine Powers, The Seattle Times, 4 Sep. 2018
  • Most colds are transmited by a type of rhinovirus, according to the Mayo Clinic.
    Korin Miller, SELF, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Of the samples taken at the desks and glass dividers at the airport’s passport control checkpoint, one in three contained the rhinovirus.
    Martine Powers, The Seattle Times, 4 Sep. 2018
  • Matintalo is proof that any contest with the rhinovirus is a gamble, even for someone who bets with care.
    David Segal, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2018
  • Also, rhinoviruses are still the most common kind of cold during the summer months, and their symptoms don’t vary from season to season.
    Markham Heid, Time, 21 June 2017
  • This simple action can help you get rid of pathogens like rhinoviruses (which can cause the common cold), influenza (which can cause the flu), and norovirus (which can cause stomach bugs).
    Zahra Barnes, SELF, 1 Apr. 2018
  • Scientists began searching for a cure to the common cold in the 1950s with a vaccine to immunize people against the most prevalent type of the disease-causing virus, the rhinovirus.
    Tim Pearce, Washington Examiner, 6 Mar. 2020
  • Due to the unique shape of the rhinovirus as well as the nutrient, zinc is able to literally attach itself to the virus, and prevent it from further infecting the person.
    Claire Maldarelli, Popular Science, 7 Apr. 2020
  • Beyond that, you can get vaccinated against the flu then pick up something like rhinovirus, which causes the common cold, and which can prompt some similar symptoms to the flu, the CDC says.
    Korin Miller, SELF, 20 Nov. 2018
  • For a study published in 2018, a group of scientists in Moscow, Idaho, squirted a common-cold-type virus, either a rhinovirus or a mouse coronavirus, up the noses of white mice.
    Roxanne Khamsi, The Atlantic, 17 Nov. 2021
  • Although more study is needed of coronavirus, in one study of rhinovirus, which causes the common cold, a small dose of virus was placed on a participant’s finger.
    Tara Parker-Pope, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2020
  • To test this, the researchers challenged all the participants’ immune systems by squirting rhinovirus—the virus behind the common cold—into their noses.
    Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 6 June 2017
  • And research in mouse cells suggests that rhinovirus, the common cold virus, replicates faster at cold temperatures, Dr. Auewarakul added.
    Karen Weintraub, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2018
  • But researchers may have identified a compound that can stop some of the most common cold viruses, the rhinovirus, in its tracks, according to a new report published in the journal Nature.
    Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 14 May 2018
  • While the biggest surge in human rhinovirus infections occurs in the fall, springtime also ushers in a second peak season for common colds.
    Markham Heid, Time, 19 Mar. 2018
  • The incubation period for rhinovirus ranges from 12 hours to three days, according to Medscape.
    Mary Kilpatrick, cleveland, 11 Feb. 2020
  • For example, an outbreak of a rhinovirus—which causes a common cold—appears to have delayed the arrival of the 2009 influenza pandemic in Europe.
    Marla Broadfoot, Scientific American, 4 June 2020
  • But most enteroviruses aren't dangerous (they're actually related to the rhinovirus, which is the common cold).
    Amelia Harnish, Health.com, 25 Oct. 2019
  • She's landed back in the hospital several times with rhinovirus, a blood infection, and several bouts of pneumonia.
    Barbara Brody, Health.com, 19 Nov. 2019
  • In the last few years, however, advances in molecular genetics have afforded scientists insights into the rhinovirus, the most common cause of the common cold.
    Richard Klasco, M.d., New York Times, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Or spray with undiluted household hydrogen peroxide, which the CDC says works on rhinovirus infections, the cause of the common cold and harder to destroy than coronaviruses.
    oregonlive, 20 Mar. 2020
  • On the buttons of the Helsinki Airport pharmacy’s payment terminal, 50 percent of samples tested positive for the rhinovirus or the human coronavirus.
    Martine Powers, The Seattle Times, 4 Sep. 2018
  • Researchers were already aware that the misbehaving protein — called MDA5 — was involved with signaling the immune system when a virus began to spread, but their findings help to pin down an explicit link to rhinovirus infections.
    Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 13 June 2017
  • The medical team used polio viruses already weakened and altered for use in polio vaccines, and genetically engineered them to carry parts of a common cold virus, called a rhinovirus, known to be attracted to glioma cells.
    NBC News, 26 June 2018
  • Today, the corral is considered an engineered device, while rhinovirus is viewed as a biological entity.
    Larry Smarr, WIRED, 1 June 2003
  • Similarly, it's been very difficult to develop vaccines for the common rhinoviruses and adenoviruses -- which, like coronaviruses, can cause cold symptoms.
    Rob Picheta, CNN, 3 May 2020

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