Alphavirus: Causes & Reasons

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Possible Causes for Alphavirus

Ross River Fever

The alphavirus genus to which arboviruses belong are small enveloped viruses with a single positive strand of RNA. [symptoma.com]

O'nyong-nyong virus [GN: T40027 ] (+ssRNA alphavirus) Mayaro virus [GN: T40032 ] (+ssRNA alphavirus) Ross River virus [GN: T40071 ] (+ssRNA alphavirus) Rift Valley fever [kegg.jp]

The alphavirus infection attacks the joints and is characterised by musculoskeletal pain and fatigue. It also leads to the destruction of cartilage within joints. [theguardian.com]

Eastern Equine Encephalitis

We discuss plausible mechanisms as well the potential utility of our LANAC formulation as a pan-alphavirus vaccine. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Wikimedia Commons, l'archivio di file multimediali liberi Jump to navigation Jump to search Domain : Viruses • Group : Group IV viruses • Familia : Togaviridae • Genus : Alphavirus [commons.wikimedia.org]

To assess exposure to EEEV in Peru, sera from acutely ill and healthy persons were tested for EEEV and other alphavirus antibodies, as well as for virus isolation. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Sindbis Virus Infection

Sindbis virus (SinV), a member of the Alphavirus genus, is the most widely distributed of all known arboviruses. [pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Sindbis virus - the type species of the genus Alphavirus, in the family Togaviridae. [medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com]

BACKGROUND: Sindbis virus (SINV) is a mosquito-borne alphavirus found in Eurasia, Africa, and Oceania. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Barmah Forest Virus Infection

Abstract Barmah Forest virus is a mosquito-borne agent (alphavirus) reported to cause both clinical and subclinical infections in New South Wales. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Diseases and Microbiology Laboratory Services, Westmead, NSW, Australia. linda.hueston@swahs.health.nsw.gov.au Abstract Barmah Forest virus (BFV) is a mosquito borne (+) ssRNA alphavirus [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Barmah Forest virus a species of Alphavirus that has caused outbreaks of polyarthritis in humans in Australia; transmitted by mosquitoes. [medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com]

Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis

Gov't MeSH terms Air Microbiology Alphavirus/immunology* Alphavirus Infections/immunology Alphavirus Infections/prevention & control* Alphavirus Infections/virology Amino [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

BACKGROUND: Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus (VEEV) belongs to the Alphavirus group. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

[…] effective alphavirus-based vaccine design. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Viral Arthritis

ENDS About Ross River Virus and Chikungunya Virus Ross River virus is a mosquito-transmitted alphavirus that causes epidemic polyarthritis and bone pain. [scimex.org]

[…] prevent the development of a hemorrhagic component with alphavirus rashes. [emedicine.medscape.com]

In PNAS, Chen et al. ( 3 ) present evidence that joint pain and associated symptoms of arthritogenic alphavirus infection (in this case a mouse model of RRV) are strikingly [pnas.org]

Chikungunya

The T cell immune T cell response to Chikungunya virus (CHIKV), a mosquito-borne Alphavirus of the Togaviridae family responsible for severe musculoskeletal disorders, has [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Chikungunya virus is a member of the alphavirus genus, and Togaviridae family. [creative-diagnostics.com]

Chikungunya, an alphavirus infection presenting with fever, rash, and polyarthritis, is most often an acute febrile illness. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Arboviral Infection

O'nyong-nyong virus [GN: T40027 ] (+ssRNA alphavirus) Mayaro virus [GN: T40032 ] (+ssRNA alphavirus) Ross River virus [GN: T40071 ] (+ssRNA alphavirus) Rift Valley fever [genome.jp]

The Arboviruses that cause encephalitis come from three different virus families: Flaviviridae(genus Alphavirus), Togaviridae, and Bunyaviridae. [austincc.edu]

Chikungunya is a re-emerging alphavirus causing massive epidemics in Africa, in the Indian Ocean, and Southeast Asia. [clinicaltrials.gov]

Western Equine Encephalomyelitis

[…] this Persistent URL to link to this item: http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20160701-151815908 Abstract Western equine encephalomyelitis (WEE) virus (Togaviridae: Alphavirus [authors.library.caltech.edu]

Abstract The decrease in western equine encephalomyelitis virus (WEEV; Togaviridae, Alphavirus) activity in North America over the past 20-30 years has prompted research to [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

VEE Introduction Family Togaviridae Genus Alphavirus Single-stranded, linear, positive-sense RNA viruses, 60-70nm in diameter. [1] Surface of an Alphavirus JoelMills 2007 [en.wikivet.net]

Arbovirus Encephalitis

[…] disease or RRV polyarthralgia Alphavirus Barmah Forest virus BFV Use BFV followed by a description of the illness, eg BFV disease or BFV polyarthralgia Alphavirus Chikungunya [health.gov.au]

The Arboviruses that cause encephalitis come from three different virus families: Flaviviridae(genus Alphavirus), Togaviridae, and Bunyaviridae. [austincc.edu]

Arboviruses can cause human encephalititis and are typically members of three virus families: Togavirdae (Alphavirus), Flavivirdae, and Bunyavirdae. [health.maryland.gov]

Rubella-Associated Arthritis

The other genus in the family of Togaviridae is Alphavirus. [asmscience.org]

Symptoms common to all alphavirus infections include rhinorrhoea, sore throat, marked lethargy and backache. [antimicrobe.org]

Alphaviruses Diagnosis of alphavirus infection is confirmed by specific serology results. [emedicine.medscape.com]

Carcinomatous Polyarthritis

This condition is termed alphavirus polyarthritis syndrome. [en.wikipedia.org]

[…] often caused by an auto-immune disorder such as rheumatoid arthritis, amyloidosis, psoriatic arthritis, and lupus erythematosus but can also be caused by infection with an alphavirus [en.wikipedia.org]

Alphavirus Polyarthritis Syndrome has an incubation period of 3–21 days, depending on the specific virus, with either a gradual or sudden onset of fever, arthralgias, headache [en.wikipedia.org]

Varicella Zoster Virus Encephalitis

Together with herpes simplex viruses (HSV) 1 and 2, it belongs to the alphavirus family of human herpesviruses. [symptoma.com]

Alphavirus and flavivirus were absent. Similar data were obtained in this study, although, enterovirus, alphavirus or flavivirus were not sought. [scielo.org.co]

Togaviridae Disease

Abstract Chikungunya fever is an emerging disease caused by an alphavirus belonging to the Togaviridae family, transmitted by the bite of Aedes genus species: Aedesaegypti [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Sindbis Fever

Mosquitoborne viruses such as chikungunya virus, Ross River virus, and Sindbis virus (SINV) are members of the genus Alphavirus (family Togaviridae) and cause human arthritic [wwwnc.cdc.gov]

AGENT NAME: Sindbis virus SYNONYM OR CROSS REFERENCE: Epidemic polyarthritis and rash, Sindbis virus disease, SIN, ockelbo virus CHARACTERISTICS: Family Togaviridae, genus Alphavirus [msdsonline.com]

The objective of this project was to determine whether infection with an Alphavirus alters vector susceptibility to DENV. [parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com]

Venezuelan Equine Encephalomyelitis

The antibodies reacted only with VEE antigen but not with Sindbis and Chikungunya alphavirus antigens. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Flavivirus Infection

To assess whether this inhibitory effect was flavivirus-specific, viral titers of an alphavirus, CHIKV, were similarly compared in cultures co- and previously inoculated with [tandfonline.com]

Previous studies by Smith et al., with Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus, an alphavirus, demonstrated that only a limited number of midgut epithelial cells were susceptible [tandfonline.com]

[…] the superinfection exclusion principal in arthropod cells were conducted with Sindbis virus and indicated the superinfection exclusion of alternative, distantly related alphavirus [tandfonline.com]

Zika Virus Disease

Abstract In 1977 and 1978 selected in-patients at the Tegalyoso Hospital, Klaten, Indonesia who had recent onsets of acute fever were serologically studied for evidence for alphavirus [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Summary In 1977 and 1978 selected in-patients at the Tegalyoso Hospital, Klaten, Indonesia who had recent onsets of acute fever were serologically studied for evidence of alphavirus [web.archive.org]

[…] addition to dengue, other considerations include leptospirosis, malaria, rickettsia, group A streptococcus, rubella, measles, and parvovirus, enterovirus, adenovirus, and alphavirus [web.archive.org]

Polyarthritis

This condition is termed alphavirus polyarthritis syndrome. [en.wikipedia.org]

Hence this condition is called alphavirus polyarthritis syndrome. [byjus.com]

Alphavirus Polyarthritis caused by alphavirus is called “ alphavirus polyarthritis syndrome “. [healthglimmer.com]

Marburg Virus Disease

[…] guinea pigs with killed MBGV, live attenuated MBGV, soluble MBGV-GP expressed by baculovirus recombinants, MBGV-GP delivered as a DNA vaccine, or MBGV-GP delivered via an alphavirus [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

ICD-10-CM B33.8 Other specified viral diseases Approximate Synonyms Acute infectious lymphocytosis Cervical myalgia, epidemic Disease due to Alpharetrovirus Disease due to Alphavirus [icd9data.com]

Marburg virus vaccines based upon alphavirus replicons protect guinea pigs and nonhuman primates. [doi.org]

Rift Valley Fever

The observations of VT for other arboviruses in the genera Alphavirus, Flavivirus and Orthobunyavirus are discussed within the context of RVFV. [jgv.microbiologyresearch.org]

This would be consistent with alphavirus assemblies, in which the fusion protein E1 is covered by E2 ( 33, 34 ). Fig. 4. [doi.org]

The overall configuration bears strong similarity ( 22 ) to alphavirus E1 proteins and flavivirus E proteins ( Fig. 1 C and D ) despite the highly divergent sequence of RVFV [doi.org]

St. Louis Encephalitis

[…] have distinct intermediate spacing such that they are positioned further apart than previously observed in flaviviruses but closer together than Semliki Forest virus, an alphavirus [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Four SLE patients were dually infected with Highlands J virus, the first reported cases of acute infection with this alphavirus. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Alphavirus E1, however, shares no appreciable sequence identity to SLEV E or any other flavivirus E protein. [jvi.asm.org]

Venezuelan Hemorrhagic Fever

Keywords:: alphavirus, anthrax, Bacillus anthracis, biodefense, DNA vaccine, Ebola virus, electroporation, gene gun, Marburg virus, monkeypox virus, poxvirus, smallpox, vaccinia [dx.doi.org]

Post Viral Asthenia

Approximately five to six types of alphavirus infection cause rheumatic symptoms and fever as major features; all are mosquito-borne. [emedicine.medscape.com]

Joint pain is reported in infections with hepatitis A virus (HAV), hepatitis B virus (HBV), alphavirus, dengue virus, Epstein-Barr virus, and others. [rheumatologyadvisor.com]

Alphaviruses may disrupt bone homeostasis, and osteoblasts may contribute to alphavirus-induced arthritis by regulating IL-6 and contribute to bone loss by disrupting the [emedicine.medscape.com]

Seronegative Arthritis

An alphavirus, chikungunya virus makes most affected individuals quite ill, and serum IgG and IgM titers persist long after infection. [mdedge.com]

Alphavirus infections generally resolve over three to six months. [uptodate.com]

The diagnosis of alphavirus infection can be made by appropriate serologic testing in travelers from endemic areas with persistent arthritic symptoms. [uptodate.com]

Viral Pleurisy

Approximately five to six types of alphavirus infection cause rheumatic symptoms and fever as major features; all are mosquito-borne. [emedicine.medscape.com]

Alphaviruses may disrupt bone homeostasis, and osteoblasts may contribute to alphavirus-induced arthritis by regulating IL-6 and contribute to bone loss by disrupting the [emedicine.medscape.com]

Pacific islands Mayaro virus – South America Sindbis virus – Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Philippines Barmah Forest virus – Australia Chen and colleagues found that alphavirus [emedicine.medscape.com]

Vaccinia Virus Infection

Polyomaviridae Merkel cell polyomavirus Merkel cell carcinoma RNA virus Paramyxoviridae MeV Measles Togaviridae Rubella virus Rubella Congenital rubella syndrome ("German measles") Alphavirus [en.wikipedia.org]

Kyasanur Forest Disease

Mayaro virus is an alphavirus in the Togavirus family. Prevention of Mayaro disease involves avoiding mosquito bites. Oropouche virus is a Simbu group bunyavirus. [msdmanuals.com]

[…] replicon particles US7531180B2 ( en ) 2001-05-31 2009-05-12 Novartis Vaccines And Diagnostics, Inc Chimeric alphavirus replicon particles ES2439724T3 ( es ) 2001-06-01 2014 [patents.google.com]

FR2823222B1 ( fr ) * 2001-04-06 2004-02-06 Merial Sas Vaccin contre le virus de la fievre du nil US20030232324A1 ( en ) 2001-05-31 2003-12-18 Chiron Corporation Chimeric alphavirus [patents.google.com]

Murray Valley Encephalitis Virus

The genetic homogeneity of the MVE isolates contrasts with results obtained for Ross River virus, an alphavirus, using an identical methodological approach; we propose that [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

West Nile Encephalitis

Virus isolation (requires Biosafety level 3 lab) DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS: Microscopically for brain and spinal cord lesions: · Eastern equine encephalitis ( Togaviridae ; Alphavirus [askjpc.org]

Serology is the key to antemortem diagnosis of recent alphavirus and flavivirus infection in horses showing clinical signs. [merckvetmanual.com]

Western Equine Encephalitis Virus Family Togaviridae (genus Alphavirus ) U.S. [pennstatehershey.adam.com]