Lassa fever, also known as Lassa hemorrhagic fever, is a type of viral hemorrhagic fever caused by the Lassa virus. Many of those infected by the virus...
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hemorrhagic fever (VHF), in humans and other primates. Lassa mammarenavirus is an emerging virus and a select agent, requiring Biosafety Level 4-equivalent...
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Arenavirus (redirect from Arena virus)
virus. Hemorrhagic fever syndromes, including Lassa fever, are derived from infections such as Guanarito virus, Junin virus, Lassa virus, Lujo virus,...
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Viral hepatitis (redirect from Hepatitis virus)
virus, Junín virus, Lassa fever virus, Lujo virus, Machupo virus, and Sabiá virus Bunyaviruses: Crimean–Congo hemorrhagic fever virus, Dobrava virus,...
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caused by the Lassa virus Lassa hastata (Pavonia hastata), a shrub in the family Malvaceae Lassa virus (LASV), the arenavirus that causes Lassa hemorrhagic...
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Orthornavirae (redirect from RNA viruses)
Hantaviruses Hepatitis A virus Hepatitis C virus Hepatitis E virus Human orthopneumovirus Influenza viruses Japanese encephalitis virus Lassa mammarenavirus Measles...
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Ebola and Marburg Viruses, Lassa Virus, Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus, Rift Valley Fever Virus, Dengue Virus, and Yellow Fever Virus by Real-Time Reverse...
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fever virus and the tomato spotted wilt virus. Notable vertebrate −ssRNA viruses include the Ebola virus, hantaviruses, influenza viruses, the Lassa fever...
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Viral hemorrhagic fever (redirect from Hemorrhagic fever virus)
include the viruses responsible for Lassa fever (Lassa virus), Lujo virus, Argentine (Junin virus), Bolivian (Machupo virus), Brazilian (Sabiá virus), Chapare...
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2 (SARS-CoV-2), the Nipah virus, the Lassa fever virus, and the Rift Valley fever virus, as well as the Chikungunya virus and the hypothetical, unknown...
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List of notifiable diseases (section Virus)
fever, Dengue hemorraghic fever, Ebola virus, Lassa virus, Marburg virus Flavivirus infection (unspecified), including Zika virus Zika virus infection...
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Select agent (section Viruses)
(VHF) viruses: African VHF viruses: Crimean–Congo hemorrhagic fever virus Ebola virus* Lassa fever virus Lujo virus Marburg virus* Asian VHF viruses: Kyasanur...
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Zika virus (ZIKV; pronounced /ˈziːkə/ or /ˈzɪkə/) is a member of the virus family Flaviviridae. It is spread by daytime-active Aedes mosquitoes, such...
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Marburg virus, Ebola virus, Lassa fever virus, Crimean–Congo hemorrhagic fever, and other hemorrhagic diseases, as well as Nipah virus. Variola virus (smallpox)...
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Lujo mammarenavirus (redirect from Lujo (virus))
continent—the first being Lassa virus—and since 2012 has been classed as a "Select Agent" under U.S. law. Only 5 cases of this virus have ever been reported;...
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virus is an East African arenavirus infecting the multimammate mouse (Mastomys natalensis). The virus is genetically closely related to Lassa virus,...
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Virus classification is the process of naming viruses and placing them into a taxonomic system similar to the classification systems used for cellular...
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Yellow fever (redirect from Yellow fever virus)
malaria. Other viral hemorrhagic fevers, such as Ebola virus, Lassa virus, Marburg virus, and Junin virus, must be excluded as the cause. Personal prevention...
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genus Flavivirus, which also contains the Zika virus, dengue virus, and yellow fever virus. The virus is primarily transmitted by mosquitoes, mostly species...
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Human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 1 or human T-lymphotropic virus (HTLV-I), also called the adult T-cell lymphoma virus type 1, is a retrovirus of the...
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in 1969 at Yale where Casals barely survived the Lassa fever he contracted while studying the virus in the laboratory, and another staff member, Juan...
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Eastern equine encephalitis (redirect from Eastern equine encephalomyelitis virus)
equine encephalitis virus (EEEV) is closely related to Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus and western equine encephalitis virus. The incubation period...
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Weaver, S. C. (2012). "A vaccine candidate for eastern equine encephalitis virus based on IRES-mediated attenuation". Vaccine. 30 (7): 1276–1282. doi:10...
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rVSV-MARV vaccine, a candidate against the Marburg virus rVSV-based vaccine candidate against Lassa fever An HIV vaccine candidate This disambiguation...
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hemorrhagic fever virus Ebola virus Lassa virus Lujo virus Marburg virus New World arenavirus – Guanarito virus New World arenavirus – Junin virus New World arenavirus...
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Mosquito-borne disease (redirect from Mosquito-borne virus)
diseases or mosquito-borne illnesses are diseases caused by bacteria, viruses or parasites transmitted by mosquitoes. Nearly 700 million people contract...
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agent) Lassa virus (Arenaviridae) Lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (Arenaviridae) Hantavirus (Bunyaviridae) Marburg virus (Filoviridae) Ebola virus (Filoviridae)...
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other pox viruses Viral hemorrhagic fevers Arenaviruses: Lymphocytic choriomeningitis (LCM), Junin virus, Machupo virus, Guanarito virus, Lassa fever Bunyaviruses:...
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Nipah virus is a bat-borne, zoonotic virus that causes Nipah virus infection in humans and other animals, a disease with a very high mortality rate (40-75%)...
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for Lassa fever testing to suggest that Ebola had been in Sierra Leone as early as 2006. In 2014, it was discovered that samples of suspected Lassa fever...
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