Flashcards: Flaviviruses

Langat virus (LGTV) is a virus of the genus Flavivirus.

Murray Valley encephalitis virus (MVEV) is a zoonotic flavivirus endemic to northern Australia and Papua New Guinea.

Powassan virus is a virus transmitted by ticks.

Spondweni virus (SPOV) is an arbovirus, or arthropod-borne virus, which is a member of the family Flaviviridae and the genus Flavivirus.

Gadgets Gully virus (GGYV) is an arbovirus, a member of the flavivirus family first isolated from the hard tick Ixodes uriae, and named after Gadget's Gully on Macquarie Island in the southwest Pacific Ocean.

The Kadam virus (or KAD, strain MP6640) is a tick-borne Flavivirus.

Kunjin virus (KUNV) is a zoonotic virus of the family Flaviviridae and the genus Flavivirus.

Entebbe bat virus in an infectious disease caused by a Flavivirus and is closely related to yellow fever.

Wesselsbron (WSL) virus is an arthropod-borne virus in the genus Flavivirus of the family Flaviviridae that causes Wesselsbron disease in cattle, sheep, goats, camels, pigs, donkeys, horses, ostriches, and wild ruminants with occasional incidental spillover to humans.

Usutu virus (USUV) first identified in South Africa in 1959, is an emerging zoonotic arbovirus of concern because of its pathogenicity to humans and its similarity in ecology with other emerging arboviruses such as West Nile Virus.

Dengue virus (DENV) is the cause of dengue fever.

Alkhurma virus (ALKV) is a member of the Flaviviridae virus family (class IV).

Deer tick virus is a virus causing tick-borne encephalitis.