Arenaviridae
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Arenavirus group, Guanarito virus, Mozambique virus, tacaribe group, Tacaribe virus, Venezuelan hemorrhagic fever virus
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Broader Terms
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Narrower Terms
Lassa virus, lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus, New World Arenavirus
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Facts (generated by robot; please edit if you find it inaccurate)
- 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.
- Reservoirs The family Arenaviridae is broken into two groups: The Tacaribe Complex Viruses and The LCM/Lassa Complex Viruses.
- The zoonotic virus from the family Arenaviridae is mild or asymptomatic in about 80% of human victims.
- Interhuman transmission of arenaviridae is rare except in the case of Lassa.
- Arenaviridae Taxonomic Structure of the Family Family 00.
- org/ Home Browse by Outcome: Arenaviridae Infections (2 articles) % of records by year: 1965 2005 Linkages: Sort by: [year] [journal] [1au] - [0-9] [9-0] Bennett SG, Milazzo ML, Webb JP Jr, Fulhorst CF Arenavirus antibody in rodents indigenous to coastal southern California.
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