DISEASE: Saint Louis encephalitis

Entry

H02166                      Disease

Name

Saint Louis encephalitis

Supergrp

Mosquito-borne viral encephalitis [DS:H00379]

Description

Saint Louis encephalitis is an infection of the central nervous system caused by Saint Louis encephalitis virus (SLEV), a flavivirus in the Flaviviridae family of +ssRNA viruses, and transmitted by Culex mosquitoes. SLEV was first isolated in 1933 in St Louis, Missouri, USA.

Category

Infectious disease

Brite

Infectious diseases [BR:br08401]
Viral infections
  Infections caused by +ssRNA viruses
   H02166  Saint Louis encephalitis
Human diseases in ICD-11 classification [BR:br08403]
01 Certain infectious or parasitic diseases
  Viral infections of the central nervous system
   1C86  St Louis encephalitis
    H02166  Saint Louis encephalitis

Pathogen

Saint Louis encephalitis virus [GN:T40327]

Other DBs

ICD-11:

1C86

Reference

PMID:18374605

Authors

Baillie GJ, Kolokotronis SO, Waltari E, Maffei JG, Kramer LD, Perkins SL

Title

Phylogenetic and evolutionary analyses of St. Louis encephalitis virus genomes.

Journal

Mol Phylogenet Evol 47:717-28 (2008)
DOI:10.1016/j.ympev.2008.02.015

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