Arenaviridae

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Contents

Used for

Arenavirus group, Guanarito virus, Mozambique virus, tacaribe group, Tacaribe virus, Venezuelan hemorrhagic fever virus

See for

TAC virus

Broader Terms

RNA virus

Narrower Terms

Lassa virus, lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus, New World Arenavirus

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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