O'nyong-nyong fever is an infectious disease caused by O'nyong-nyong virus (ONNV), an alphavirus in the Togaviridae family of +ssRNA viruses, and transmitted by Anopheles mosquitoes. ONNV was first isolated in 1959 in Uganda.
Category
Infectious disease
Brite
Infectious diseases [BR:br08401]
Viral infections
Infections caused by +ssRNA viruses
H01545 O'nyong-nyong fever
Human diseases in ICD-11 classification [BR:br08403]
01 Certain infectious or parasitic diseases
Certain arthropod-borne viral fevers
1D42 O'nyong-nyong fever
H01545 O'nyong-nyong fever
Pathogen
O'nyong-nyong virus [GN:T40027]
Other DBs
ICD-11:
1D42
ICD-10:
A92.1
MeSH:
D018354
Reference
PMID:16607002
Authors
Vanlandingham DL, Tsetsarkin K, Klingler KA, Hong C, McElroy KL, Lehane MJ, Higgs S
Title
Determinants of vector specificity of o'nyong nyong and chikungunya viruses in Anopheles and Aedes mosquitoes.
Journal
Am J Trop Med Hyg 74:663-9 (2006) DOI:10.4269/ajtmh.2006.74.663