(redirected fromWest Nile virus infection) Thesaurus Medical Encyclopedia n. A flavivirus that is transmitted by the bite of a culex mosquito and that can cause mild febrile illness as well as severe, sometimes fatal encephalitis and meningitis. ...
The flaviviruses comprise a group of related viruses that are highly diverse in their ecological niches, life cycles, evolution, and disease manifestations in humans. Common among them is their importance in producing human disease and as emerging or re-emerging global health threats. Yellow fever v...
VirusGeographic distributionPrincipal vectorLivestock affectedWildlife affectedHuman disease Dengue virus Africa, Asia, Americas, Europe Aedes spp. None None Systemic febrile illness; Hemorrhagic fever Japanese encephalitis virus Asia Culex spp. Pigs, horses Avian spp. Encephalitis Murray Valley encephalitis vi...
Phylogenetic tree showing the association of the groups of related viruses with their invertebrate vectors, vertebrate hosts, and geographic distribution.ALFAlfuy,MVEMurray Valley encephalitis,JEJapanese encephalitis,USUUsutu,KOUKoutango,KUNKunjin,WNWest Nile,YAOYaounde,CPCCacipacore,AROAroa,IGUIguape,NJLN...
West Nile virus (WNV) is a positive-stranded RNA virus belonging to the Flaviviridae family, a large family with 3 main genera (flavivirus, hepacivirus and pestivirus). Among these viruses, there are several globally relevant human pathogens including th
Valley-Omar, B. Allan, A.L. Williamson High rate of multiple concurrent human papillomavirus infections among HIV-uninfected South African adolescents J. Immunol. Tech. Infect. Dis., 2 (1) (2013), p. 1000106 Google Scholar [15] G.M. Clifford, M.A. Goncalves, S. Franceschi Hpv, ...
West Nile is a tropical disease that begins in birds, which pass it on to mosquitoes that then go on to infect human beings with a bite. Most people who contract West Nile do not experience any symptoms at all, but, if they do, symptoms typically develop between 3 to 14 days after a...
Peng2, Gabor Pali2, Luiz T. Figueiredo3, Alexander A. Khromykh2,# & Victor H. Aquino1,# Mosquito-transmitted flavivirus Rocio (ROCV) was responsible for an outbreak of encephalitis in the Ribeira Valley, located in the south coast of Sao Paulo State, Brazil, in ...
The Kunjin strains of WNV have presumably circulated in Australia for a very long time [4], and Australasia is host to an abundance of related flaviviruses, such as Murray Valley encephalitis virus and Alfuy virus, that may confer some degree of cross-protection [5,43,44]...
Murray Valley Encephalitis Virus (MVEV) MVEV has caused numerous encephalitis epidemics (Australian X disease) in Australia since the early 1900s. The virus was first isolated in 1951 from the brain of a 19-year- old male who succumbed to infection [3]. Encephalitis out- breaks in 1917, ...