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caused by a flavivirus transmitted by a mosquito

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Molecular phylogeny of Edge Hill virus supports its position in the yellow fever virus group and identifies a new genetic variant.
Characterization of Fitzroy River virus and serologic evidence of human and animal infection
Screening test for neutralizing antibodies against yellow fever virus, based on a flavivirus pseudotype.
Hepatitis Rebound after Infection with Yellow Fever Virus
As for yellow fever virus, MAYV can infect humans who inhabit the rural areas or enter these forested areas either to work or to take advantage of the environmental attractions, leading to a febrile condition characterized by fever, cutaneous rash, and joint pain.
Will Mayaro virus be responsible for the next outbreak of an arthropod-borne virus in Brazil?
Yellow fever virus is imported to the Americas on slave ships from Africa.
Swat that virus: researchers aim to take the sting out of mosquito-carried diseases
Yellow fever virus is transmitted by Aedes aegypti -- the same mosquito that spreads the Zika virus.
The return of yellow fever epidemic
Issues concerning the history of slavery and the slave trade are at the heart of this account, as is the history of a disease and the "well-meaning but naive colonists" who unwittingly "encouraged both insects and the yellow fever virus to flourish" (155, 110).
Ship of Death: A Voyage That Changed the Atlantic World
Dr Derek Gatherer, a lecturer in Biomedical Sciences at Lancaster University, says: "It is a member of the flavivirus group (of viruses), a relative of yellow fever virus and dengue fever virus, first discovered in 1947 in Uganda."
What is the Zika virus? Am I at risk and should I cancel my holiday if I am pregnant? As The World Health Organisation declares the Zika virus to be 'spreading explosively', here is all you need to know about the disease and the risk to unborn babies; As The World Health Organisation declares the Zika virus to be 'spreading explosively', here is all you need to know about the disease and the risk to unborn babies
Isolations of yellow Fever virus from Haemagogus leucocelaenus in Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil.
Blood sucking Diptera (Culicidae, Psychodidae, Simuliidae) in forest fragment under impact of dam in the borderland of Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina states, Brazil/Dipteros hematofagos (Culicidae, Psychodidae, Simuliidae) em fragmento de floresta sob impacto de barragem na frontera dos estados do Rio Grande do Sul e Santa Catarina, Brasil
Our cloning and sequencing efforts confirmed this hypothesis, because we found that viruses such as hepatitis C virus, yellow fever virus, and HIV 1 did not express miRNAs, whereas 3 viruses from the herpesvirus family (Kaposi's sarcoma herpesvirus, human cytomegalovirus, and the mouse herpesvirus 68) all encoded miRNAs.
Herpesviruses encode their own microRNAs
"Kenya decided to carry the survey so as determine if there is circulation of the yellow fever virus," she said.
At least 30 countries in Africa at risk of yellow fever: WHO
It is caused by the yellow fever virus (YFV) that is transmitted to humans through the bite of the Aedes or Haemagogus mosquitoes (Lindenbach 2007).
The antiviral activity of Gynostemma pentaphyllum against yellow fever virus
According to the company, proof-of-principle data has demonstrated that BCX4430 is efficacious and well tolerated in a preclinical disease model for evaluating efficacy against yellow fever virus infection.
BioCryst reports BCX4430 effective against yellow fever in preclinical disease model
Molecular testing failed to identify the yellow fever virus itself in CSF.
Mom's yellow-fever shot transmitted virus to infant
The mosquito-borne arboviruses that are potentially notifiable are yellow fever virus, West Nile virus, Rift Valley fever virus and Dengue virus.
Mosquito-borne viral infections in Southern Africa: a public health perspective: Of the six mosquito-borne viral infections of interest in Southern Africa, four can cause a haemorrhagic state
MARLBORO - Patients given an experimental vaccine against the yellow fever virus tolerated the injections and developed antibodies to the virus, Xcellerex Inc.
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