DISEASE: Rift Valley fever

Entry

H01549                      Disease

Name

Rift Valley fever

Supergrp

Mosquito-borne viral fever [DS:H00382]
Arthropod-borne viral fever [DS:H00383]

Description

Rift Valley fever is an infectious disease caused by Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV), a phlebovirus in the order Bunyavirales of -ssRNA viruses, and transmitted by Aedes and Culex mosquitoes. RVFV was first isolated in 1931 in Kenya.

Category

Infectious disease

Brite

Infectious diseases [BR:br08401]
Viral infections
  Infections caused by -ssRNA viruses
   H01549  Rift Valley fever
Human diseases in ICD-11 classification [BR:br08403]
01 Certain infectious or parasitic diseases
  Certain arthropod-borne viral fevers
   1D44  Rift Valley fever
    H01549  Rift Valley fever

Pathogen

Rift Valley fever virus [GN:T40030]

Other DBs

ICD-11:

1D44

ICD-10:

A92.4

MeSH:

D012295

Reference

PMID:19335238

Authors

Bird BH, Ksiazek TG, Nichol ST, Maclachlan NJ

Title

Rift Valley fever virus.

Journal

J Am Vet Med Assoc 234:883-93 (2009)
DOI:10.2460/javma.234.7.883

Reference

PMID:21450816

Authors

Boshra H, Lorenzo G, Busquets N, Brun A

Title

Rift valley fever: recent insights into pathogenesis and prevention.

Journal

J Virol 85:6098-105 (2011)
DOI:10.1128/JVI.02641-10

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