Name the viruses that were discussed in class.

(8)

• Arenavirus (Arenaviridae)
• Bunyavirus (Bunyaviridae)
• Filovirus (Filoviridae)
• Coronavirus (Coronaviridae)
• Herpesvirus (Herpesviridae)
• Hantavirus
• Paramyxovirus (Paramyxoviridae)
• Retrovirus (Retroviridae) 

• carried by rodents in their feces and urine
• transmission is thought to be by inhalation of eggs contained in the dust of nests where the animal deficate and urinate
• Life threatening disease with symptoms similar to influenza; 

• Lassa fever; Bolivian hemorrhagic fever (Machupo)
• transmission by contact with rodent excrement

• Hanta and hemorrhagic fever
• Hanta contracted by contact with rodent excrement
• Hemorrhagic fever by mosquitos, ticks, or sandfly, the reservoir being birds 

• Ebola, Marvug, hemorrhagic fever
• transmission is person-to-person; maybe animal reservoir
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Coronavirus

• SARS;
• transmission is by respiratory droplets

Herpesvirus

(8)

• HSV-1 - cold sores
• HSV-2 - genital herpes
• VZV-3 - shingles
• EBV-4 - mononucleosis (glandular fever), hepatitis, encephalitis, Burkitt's lymphoma, nasopharyngeal carcinoma
• CMV-5 - mononucleosis, hepititis, pneumonitis, congenital CMV
• HHV-6 - exanthem subitum, milds fevrile illness
• HHV-7 - exanthem subitum, milds fevrile illness
• HHV-8 - Kaposi's sarcoma

• measles: nasal discharge, fever, rash (10-14 days)
• mumps: parotitis, aseptic meningitis (12-25 days)
• transmission by respiratory droplets
• live attenuated vaccine