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08/22/2012

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Term

LIPID ENVELOPE

INACTIVATED BY ETHER OR LOW CONCETRATIO OF DETERGENT

Definition
ARBOVIRUSES
Term
ARTHROPOD-BORNE VIRUSES
Definition
ARBOVIRUSES
Term
DOES NOT INACTIVATED BY LOW CONCENTRATIONS OF DETERGENT
Definition
IS REOVIRUS
Term
ICOSAHEDRAL, ENVELOPED, SINGLE STRANDED WITH + STRANDED RNA GENOME
Definition
TOGAVIRUSES
Term

ICOSAHEDRAL,

ENVELOPED,

SINGLE-STRANDED WITH (+) STRANDED RNA GENOME

Definition
FLAVIVIRUSES
Term
ORBIVIRUSES AND COLTIVIRUSES FAMILY
Definition
REOVIRUS
Term

NON-ENVELOPED,

ICOSAHEDRAL (DOUBLE LAYER OF CAPSID),

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA VIRUSES,

10 SEGMENT IN GENOME

Definition
REOVIRUS
Term

HELICAL SYMMETRY

ENVELOPED (VIRAL PARTICLE IS SPHERICAL)

SINGLE STRANDED WITH PRIMARILY NEGATIVE STRANDED RNA GENOME

3 SEGMENT IN GENOME

Definition
BUNYAVIRUSES
Term
GENOME REASSORTMENT-AMBISENSE
Definition
BUNYAVIRUSES
Term
UNUSUAL CYCLE
Definition
FOR HUMAN ARTHROPOD CYCLE
Term
UNUSUAL CYCLE
Definition
HUMAN IS TYPICALLY "DEAD-END" HOST
Term

IN SUMMER MONTHS WHEN ARTHROPODS BREED I.E MOSQUITOES, TICKS.

ARTHROPOD VECTOR PICKS UP VIRUS FROM HOST WITH VIREMIA -->IN VECTOR USUALLY PERSISTENT BUT IN ANIMAL HOST THE VIRUS INFECTION MIGHT BE PERSISTENT OR LYTIC; THEREFORE SOMETIMES THE HOST IS DEAD-END HOST SUCH AS THE HUMAN HOST.

Definition
ARTHOPOD
Term

 AMONG THE RARE VIRUSES DOCUMENTED TO DO THIS IS DENGUE AND YELLOW FEVER VIRUSES ( AND POTENTIALLY CHIKUNGUNYA & ST. LOUIS ENCEPHAL

 

Definition
Term

WESTERN EQUINE ENCEPHALITIS (WEE)-WEST MISSISIPPI RIVER

 

Definition
ALPHAVIRUSES
Term
EASTERN EQUINE ENCEPHALITIS (EEE): EASTERN U.S CARIBBEAN
Definition
ALPHAVIRUSES
Term
CHIKUNGUNYA: S. AMERICA AND W. AFRICA CAUSES A CRIPPLING ARTHRITIS" THAT WHICH BENDS UP IN" SWAHILI
Definition
ALPHAVIRUSES
Term
ROSS RIVER VIRUS: IN AUSTRALIA AND S. PACIFIC
Definition
ALPHAVIRUSES
Term

YELLOW FEVER-HEMORRHAGIC FEVER SPREAD BY AEDES AEGYPTI MOSQUITO

 

Definition
FLAVIVIRUSES
Term

YELLOW FEVER-JAUNDICE

GI HEMORRHAGE-BLACK VOMIT (COFFEE-GROUND EMESIS).

 

Definition
FLAVIVIRUSES
Term
YELLOW FEVER: COUNCILMAN BODY (HYALINE BODY)
Definition
FLAVIVIRUSES
Term
PREVENTABLE BY VACCINE
Definition
FLAVIVIRUSES
Term

DENGUE FEVER (BREAKBONE FEVER)-FEVER, MYALGIA, RASH LEAD TO DENGUE HEMORRHARIC.

MIGHT SEE ECCHYMOSES

Definition
FLAVIVIRUSES
Term

ST. LOUIS ENCEPHALITIS (ANTIGENICALLY RELATED TO WEST NILE) ENDEMIC TO REGIONS ALONG MISSISSIPPI RIVER.

JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS GROUP

Definition
FLAVIVIRUSES
Term
WEST NILE ENCEPHALITIS (WNV)-ARE IN THE JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS GROUP.
Definition
FLAVIVIRUSES
Term
TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS, OMSK HF VIRUS AND KYASANUR HF VIRUS
Definition
FLAVIVIRUSES
Term
HUMAN TO VECTOR TO HUMAN SPEAD
Definition
YELLOW FEVER VIRUS AND DENGUE FEVER VIRUS AND BOTH SPEAD BY THE AEDES AEGYPTI MOSQUITO.
Term
HUMAN TO VECTOR (CULEX MOSQUITO) TO HUMAN
Definition
S. LOUIS ENCEPHALITIS
Term

FOUND IN BIRDS SPREAD BY MOSQUITOES.

VECTOR IS CULEX MOSQUITO

Definition
FLAVIVIRUSES
Term

HUMANS ARE DEAD-END HOST (ACCIDENTAL/INCIDENTAL HOSTS).

ELDERLY AND IMMUNOCOMPROMISED MORE AT RISK FOR CNS COMPLICATIONS OR ENCEPHALITIS.

YOUNG CHILDREN ALSO AT RISK

Definition
WEST NILE VIRUS (VNV)
Term
MILD FEBRILE DISEASE ("NON-SPECIFIC" FLU-LIKE SYMPTOMS) CAN LEAD TO FETAL ENCEPHALITIS
Definition

WEST NILE VIRUS (VNV)

 

Term

MOSTLY ARBOVIRUSES

CALI ENCEPHALITIS

LA CROSSES VIRUS

RIFT VALLEY FEVER VIRUS

Definition
BUNYAVIRUS
Term
HANTAVIRUS IS A ROBOVIRUS (RODENT BORNE VIRUS)
Definition
BUNYAVIRUS
Term
CRIMEAN-CONGO HEMORRHAGIC FEVER VIRUS SPREAD BY CULICOID FLY
Definition
BUNYAVIRUS
Term
SANDFLY FEVER VIRUS
Definition
BUNYAVIRUS
Term
COLORADO TICK FEVER VIRUS (COLTIVIRUS)-WESTERN, NORTHWESTERN U.S AND CANADA
Definition
REOVIRUS
Term
ORBIVIRUSES: AFRICAN HORSE SICKNESS AND BLUE TONGUE VIRUSES; ORUNGO NIGERIA AND KEMEROVO VIRUSES FROM RUSSIA AND EGYPT
Definition
REOVIRUS
Term
RHABDOVIRUSES
Definition
REOVIRUS
Term
HELICAL SYMMETRY, ENVELOPED SPHERICAL, SINGLE-STRANDED WITH PRIMARILY NEGATIVE STRANDED RNA GENOME; GENOME IN 3 SEGMENTS
Definition
BUNYAVIRUSES
Term
GENOME REASSORTMENT-AMBIENSE
Definition
BUNYAVIRUSES
Term
BUNYAVIRUSES HAVE THE SAME STRUCTURE TO
Definition
ARENAVIRUSES
Term
2 SEGMENT GENOME-BIPARTITE; PART OF GENOME IS AMBISENSE
Definition
ARENAVIRUSES
Term
SANDY (ARENOSE) APPEARANCE B/C THE VIRUS PARTICLE CONTAINS RIBOSOMES PICKED UP FROM HOST CELL
Definition

ARENAVIRUSES

 

Term
LONG FILAMENTS (CYCLINDER SHAPE), GENOME IS SINGLE-STRANDED, NEGATIVE-STRAND RNA, ENVELOPED
Definition
FILOVIRUSES
Term
EBOLA VIRUS, MARBURG VIRUS, RESTON VIRUS
Definition
FILOVIRUSES
Term
ENDEMIC TO AFRICA ASSOCIATED WITH MONKEYS ALTHOUGH IT IS BELIEVED THAT THERE IS RODENT RESERVOIR
Definition
FILOVIRUSES
Term
HANTAAN VIRUS CAUSE HEMORRHAGIC NECROSIS KIDNEY AND LETHAL PULMONARY DISEASE HANTA VIRAL INFECTION
Definition
BUNYAVIRUSES
Term
SIN NOMBRE VIRUS IN NEW MEXICO AREA CAUSE HANTAVIRUS PULMONARY SYNDROME--->PULMONARY EDEMA
Definition
BUNYAVIRUSES
Term
BLACK CREEK CANAL OF FLORIDA AND BAYOU VIRUS OF TEXAS AND LOUISIANA
Definition
BUNYAVIRUSES
Term
LASSA FEVER, BEST KNOWN HEMORRHAGIC VIRUS
Definition
ARENAVIRUS
Term
LYMPHOCYTIC CHORIONMENINGITIS (LCM)-FLU LIKE-25% CNS SYMPTOMS
Definition

 

ARENAVIRUS

Term
HIGH FEVER, NECK RIGIDITY-EVIDENCE OF MENINGEAL IRRITATION
Definition
ARENAVIRUS
Term
OUTBREAKS HAVE OCCURRED IN URBAN AREAS SUCH AS WASHINGTON. D.C
Definition
ARENAVIRUS
Term

BELIEVED THAT THERE IS A RODENT RESERVOIR

STARTS WITH MILD FLU-LIKE SYMPTOMS

Definition

FILOVIRUSES

 

Term
SEVERE BLEEDING, WITH KIDNEY AND RESPIRATORY COMPLICATIONS, MUSCLE ACHES
Definition
FILOVIRUSES
Term

SEVERE OR FATAL HEMORRAGIC FEVER LEAD TO DEATH OCCURING IN 50-90% OF CASE DEPENDING ON STRAIN!

APPROX. 90% OF INFECTION CAN BE FATAL

Definition
Term
PROTEIN INFECTIOUS PARTICLE AKA PRIONS, IN WHICH THE INCUBATION PERIODS ARE VERY LONG AND THE CLINICAL EXPRESSIONS OF THE DISEASE ARE RELATIVELY SLOW IN PROGRESSION.
Definition
SLOW "VIRUS" INFECTION
Term
ASSOCIATED WITH TRANSMISSIBLE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHIES (TSE); THE DISEASE APPEARS MANY YEARS LATER
Definition
PRIONS
Term
EQUINE INFECTIONS ANEMIA
Definition
VISNA (LENTIVIRUS)
Term

SCARPIE, TRANSMISSIBLE MINK ENCEPHALOPATHY

BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY (BSE) (MADCOW) DISEASE), CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE OF DEER AND ELK

Definition
PRION
Term

SUBACUTE SCLEROSING PANENCEPHALITIS

PROGRESSIVE MULTIFOCAL LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY (JC VIRUS)

Definition
SLOW VIRUS INFECTION CAUSE BY VIRUS
Term
KURU, CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB DISEASE, VARIAN CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB DISEASE (ASSOCIATE WITH MADCOW DISEASE AND CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE OF ELK)
Definition
SLOW VIRUS INFECTION IN MAN CAUSE BY PRION
Term
SUBACUTE SCLEROSING PANENCEPHALITIS (SSPE): INVOLVES A DEFECTIVE MEASLES VIRUS
Definition
CONVENTIONAL SLOW VIRUS
Term
SLOW PROGRESSIVE DEMYELINATION OF THE CNS
Definition
CONVENTIONAL SLOW VIRUS
Term
M PROTEIN
Definition

CONVENTIONAL SLOW VIRUS

 

Term
PROGRESSIVE MULIFOCAL LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY (PML): JC VIRUS LEAD TO CNS DEMYELINATION
Definition
PROGRESSIVE MULTIFOCAL LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY (PML)
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