murine

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New Guinean woolly rats, related to the giant cloud rats of the Philippines, rank among the largest murine rodents on Earth.

From Science Daily

That doesn’t include the cost of the diseases the animals spread, such as hantavirus, murine typhus and bubonic plague, nor the mental health toll of living among them.

From Los Angeles Times

They have two viruses in their sights: murine leukemia virus and Kaposi's sarcoma virus.

From Science Daily

They can also help spread murine typhus and food-borne germs like salmonella.

From Seattle Times

HKU1 has the murkiest evolutionary history, but its genetic sequence clusters close to the murine hepatitis virus, suggesting it has a rodent origin.

From Science Magazine