• Lassa fever is a potentially severe viral infection caused by Lassa virus (family Arenaviridae , genus Arenavirus ), with an overall case-fatality rate of 1%-2% and a case-fatality rate of 15%-20% for hospitalized patients ( 1 , 2 ). (cdc.gov)
  • The 12 distinct enveloped RNA viruses that cause most viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF) cases are members of 4 families: Arenaviridae, Bunyaviridae, Filoviridae, and Flaviviridae. (medscape.com)
  • Other viruses, principally from the families Arenaviridae, Bunyaviridae, Flaviviridae, Filoviridae, and Herpesviridae , also cause hepatitis as part of systemic diseases, but these are generally not grouped with the hepatitis viruses. (nationalacademies.org)
  • We study how viruses belonging to families Arenaviridae and Bunyaviridae infect their host cells. (ox.ac.uk)
  • Viruses in the family Arenaviridae are generally spread by rodents, with each virus associated with one, or a few, closely related rodent species that serve as the virus' natural reservoir. (cdc.gov)
  • citation needed] Viruses from the Arenaviridae family, to which Lujo virus belongs, almost always have a rodent reservoir, with one virus in the family having a bat reservoir. (wikipedia.org)
  • Three viruses were found to have morphologic and morphogenetic characteristics consistent with those of members of the family Arenaviridae: Quaranfil virus, a human pathogen, Johnston Atoll virus, isolated from birds and ticks, and Araguari virus, isolated from an opossum. (utmb.edu)
  • This, the first in a series of three papers, described methods used for these investigations and also presents descriptions of viruses provisionally placed in the families Arenaviridae, Paramyxoviridae, or Poxviridae. (utmb.edu)
  • The Arenaviridae family comprises of a diverse group of single-stranded RNA viruses. (taylorfrancis.com)
  • The Whitewater Arroyo virus: natural evidence for genetic recombination among Tacaribe serocomplex viruses (family Arenaviridae). (wikigenes.org)
  • Lassa virus, named after a small town in northeastern Nigeria, is an enveloped, single-stranded, bisegmented ribonucleic acid (RNA) virus classified in the family Arenaviridae. (cdc.gov)
  • Lassa fe- Lassa virus in many more districts and states in en- ver is endemic in West Africa and has been reported demic countries of the West African sub-region and from Sierra Leone, Guinea, Liberia, and Nigeria4-7. (folkhalsomyndigheten.se)
  • According to the World Health Organization, Lassa fever is an acute viral haemorrhagic illness caused by a virus belonging to the family Arenaviridae that can last between two and 21 days. (kyra-info.com)
  • Lassa fever is caused by a virus that belongs to the family Arenaviridae (WHO). (kyra-info.com)
  • Lujo is a bisegmented RNA virus-a member of the family Arenaviridae-and a known cause of viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF) in humans. (wikipedia.org)
  • Lujo hemorrhagic fever (LUHF) is caused by Lujo virus, a single-stranded virus of the Arenaviridae family. (cdc.gov)
  • West African sub-region with consideration of the mented RNA virus belonging to the Arenaviridae origin of the virus, its properties/strains, epidemiol- family. (folkhalsomyndigheten.se)
  • The virus, a member of the virus family Arenaviridae , is a single-stranded RNA virus, and is zoonotic, or animal-borne that can be transmitted to humans. (outbreaknewstoday.com)
  • An un for sik is en Virus also en Nukleinsüer , wo de Informatschoon to'n Stüern vun den Stoffwessel in de Zellen vun en Weert in afspiekert is, sunnerlich to'n Vermehren vun de Virus-Nukleinsüer un um de Viruspartikels (Virionen) alles mit to geven, wat se bruken doot. (wikipedia.org)
  • Vundeswegen kann de Virus sik bloß in de Zell vun en Weert vermehren. (wikipedia.org)
  • Although the specifics of the mechanism might vary between bunyaviruses (e.g., families Hantaviridae, Peribunyaviridae, Phenuiviridae, Arenaviridae ), a constant feature in their genome transcription is the Cap-ENDO responsible for the host cellular mRNA cleavage. (bnitm.de)
  • It is the most widely distributed of the Arenaviridae, being found worldwide in the house mouse (Mus musculus). (taylorfrancis.com)
  • The virus is a single-stranded RNA virus belonging to the virus family Arenaviridae . (who.int)
  • The discovery of Bear Canyon virus is the first unequivocal evidence that the virus family Arenaviridae is naturally associated with the rodent genus Peromyscus and that a Tacaribe serocomplex virus occurs in California. (medscape.com)
  • Arenaviridae" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) . (ouhsc.edu)
  • This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Arenaviridae" by people in this website by year, and whether "Arenaviridae" was a major or minor topic of these publications. (ouhsc.edu)
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