Flaviviridae

Used for

arbovirus group B, border disease of sheep virus, bovine viral diarrhea virus, European swine fever virus, Flavivirus, hog cholera virus, Kysanur forest disease virus, mucosal disease virus, Pestivirus

Broader Terms

RNA virus

Narrower Terms

dengue virus, hepatitis C virus, hepatitis G virus, Japanese encephalitis virus, Tick borne encephalitis virus, West Nile virus, yellow fever virus

Related Terms

encephalitis virus, epidemic encephalitis, hemorrhagic fever

Scope Note

family of RNA viruses, many of which cause disease in humans and domestic animals; there are three genera Flavivirus, Pestivirus, and Hepacivirus, as well as several unassigned species.

Facts (generated by robot; please edit if you find it inaccurate)

• 6 hr) (print) ? 2 C!sSun Sep 15 2002 at 20:21:42 Flaviviridae is a family of single-stranded RNA-containing viruses that mostly cause hemorrhagic fever in a wide range of mammals and are often transmitted by mosquitos and ticks.
• The proximity between Togaviridae and Flaviviridae is maintained by their respective vector-borne groups, Alphavirinae and Betavirinae.
• Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV), a member of the mosquito-borne encephalitis complex of the family Flaviviridae is the principal cause of viral encephalitis over a large part of southern and eastern Asia resulting in 35,000 cases of encephalitis and 10,000 deaths annually.
• flavus, yellow ) genus Flavivirus, family Flaviviridae is responsible for the disease, which in most cases results in subtle or assymptomatic forms of apresentation.
• The structural organization of the genomes of representative members of the Flaviviridae is shown in Fig.