Not exact matches
Flaviviruses
include West Nile
virus and the
virus that causes
yellow fever, as well as Dengue
virus.
This is the first structure of any helicase bound to ATP from flaviviruses, a group
including other well - known pathogens such as dengue,
yellow fever, and West Nile
viruses.
Jingmenviruses were first described in 2014 and are related to flaviviruses — a large family of
viruses that
includes human pathogens such as
yellow fever, West Nile and Japanese encephalitis
viruses.
Weaver, an expert in mosquito - borne
viruses in the family that
includes Zika, dengue, West Nile and
yellow fever, warned as early as 2009 that Zika presented a threat in the Americas.
By analyzing the affected animals, the scientists isolated an aggressive new flavivirus, a class of
viruses that
includes yellow and dengue
fevers — the first flavivirus ever identified in ducks.
Other top killers
include dengue,
yellow fever, and West Nile
virus.
It's the first time scientists have seen such rearrangement in the core of a flavivirus, the group that also
includes the
viruses that cause dengue, West Nile and
yellow fever, says virologist Richard Kuhn of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind..
After studying the role of this modification in hepatitis C
virus, the researchers generated N6 - methyladenosine maps of several related
viruses,
including dengue, West Nile,
yellow fever, and two strains of Zika
virus.
Zika - positive and Zika - negative samples were
included as well as samples that contained related
viruses that cause, for example, dengue
fever or
yellow fever, in order to test the specificity of the results.
Though this study, appearing Oct. 20 in Cell Host Microbe, focused on the hepatitis C
virus, it also mapped the presence of these tags in other members of the same viral family,
including Zika, dengue, West Nile and
yellow fever virus.
West Nile belongs to a group of
viruses called flaviviruses, which
includes yellow fever, dengue, and Japanese encephalitis.
Nevertheless, «many infections,
including dengue,
yellow fever, hanta
virus, bartonellosis and leishmaniasis, are very sensitive to climate and to temperature, humidity and rainfall.»
The
Virus Pathogen Resource (ViPR) is a US NIH / NIAID - funded, freely - available online bioinformatics resource for search, analysis and visualization of data about 14 different families of human pathogenic
viruses,
including Coronaviridae (SARS, MERS), Flaviviridae (Dengue, Zika, West Nile,
Yellow fever, Hepatitis C), Picornaviridae (Polio, Enterovirus D68), Togaviridae (Chikungunya, EEEV, VEEV, Rubella), Arenaviridae (Lassa), Filoviridae (Ebola, Marburg), Herpesviridae (HSV, EBV, CMV), and Poxviridae (Smallpox).
Zika is a member of the flavivirus family, which also
includes viruses such as Dengue
Fever and
Yellow Fever.
arbovirus any of various
viruses transmitted by arthropods and
including the causative agents of dengue
fever,
yellow fever, and some encephalitis
Arbovirus - Any of various
viruses transmitted by blood - sucking arthropods (e.g., mosquitoes, ticks, etc.) and
including the causative agents of dengue
fever,
yellow fever, and some types of encephalitis.