DISEASE: Western equine encephalitis


Entry
H01534                      Disease                                
Name
Western equine encephalitis
  Supergrp
Mosquito-borne viral encephalitis [DS:H00379]
Description
Western equine encephalitis is an infection of the central nervous system caused by Western equine encephalitis virus (WEEV), an alphavirus in the Togaviridae family of +ssRNA viruses, and transmitted by Culex mosquitoes. WEEV was first isolated in 1930 in California, USA.
Category
Infectious disease
Brite
Infectious diseases [BR:br08401]
 Viral infections
  Infections caused by +ssRNA viruses
   H01534  Western equine encephalitis
Human diseases in ICD-11 classification [BR:br08403]
 01 Certain infectious or parasitic diseases
  Viral infections of the central nervous system
   1C83  Western equine encephalitis
    H01534  Western equine encephalitis
Pathogen
Western equine encephalitis virus [GN:T40053]
Other DBs
ICD-11: 1C83
ICD-10: A83.1
MeSH: D020241
Reference
PMID:20631130
  Authors
Sherman MB, Weaver SC
  Title
Structure of the recombinant alphavirus Western equine encephalitis virus revealed by cryoelectron microscopy.
  Journal
J Virol 84:9775-82 (2010)
DOI:10.1128/JVI.00876-10
Reference
PMID:24899192
  Authors
Bergren NA, Auguste AJ, Forrester NL, Negi SS, Braun WA, Weaver SC
  Title
Western equine encephalitis virus: evolutionary analysis of a declining alphavirus based on complete genome sequences.
  Journal
J Virol 88:9260-7 (2014)
DOI:10.1128/JVI.01463-14

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