Microbiology - RNA Viruses
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- group of viruses transmitted by mosquitos and ticks, includes the families: Flavivirus, Togavirus, Bunyavirus
- Arboviruses
- Bornholm disease (pleurodynia), sudden onset stabbing chest pain, waxing and waning symptoms
- Coxsackie B Virus
- Most common cause of viral myocarditis
- Coxsackie B Virus
- vesicles on throat, pain when swallowing, herpangina
- Coxsackievirus
- destruction of the pancreas results in insulin-dependent diabetes
- Coxsackieviruses B3 and B4
- filovirus family, severe hemorrhagic fever
- Ebola virus
- Bunyavirus, three segments of RNA, severe hemorrhage and renal failure
- Hantavirus
- eating raw shellfish from fecally contaminated water
- Hepatitis A Virus
- causes acute hepatitis with no chronic carrier state
- Hepatitis A Virus
- Post-transfusion hepatitis
- Hepatitis C Virus
- Flavivirus, major cause of chronic hepatitis and cirrhosis hin the United States
- Hepatitis C Virus
- Dane particle, replication-deficient
- Hepatitis D Virus
- requires co-infection of hepatitis B virus for infection
- Hepatitis D Virus
- Calicivirus, fecal/oral transmission, high mortality rate in pregnant women
- Hepatitis E Virus
- T cell destruction, opportunistic infections
- HIV (Human immunodeficiency virus)
- binds to CD4+ cells via gp120, needs chemokine receptors CCR5 and CXCR4
- HIV (Human immunodeficiency virus)
- retrovirus, endemic to Japan and the Caribbean basin, causes oncogenic transformation of CD4+ T cells
- HTLV-1 (Human T-call lymphotropic virus-1
- Orthomyxovirus, Reye syndrome in children due to treatment of this virus with salicylates
- Influenza virus
- high risk of antigenic drift and shift due to point mutations and genome reassortment
- Influenza virus
- virus causing pnuemonia and increases risk of secondary bacterial pnuemonia
- Influenza virus
- only RNA viruses that replicate in the nucleus
- Influenza and Retrovirusus
- Koplick spots, maculopapular rash on the head, trunk, and limbs
- Measles virus
- SSPE (subacute sclerosing panencephalitis), defective M protein
- Measles virus
- Giant cell pnuemonia and encephalomyelitis
- Measles virus
- contents of the MMR vaccine
- Measles, Mumps, and Rubella
- parotiditis, and orchitis that can lead to sterility
- Mumps Virus
- swelling of the parotids, can result in aseptic meningitis and pancreatitis
- Mumps Virus
- Calicivirus, epidemic gastroenteritis, common on cruise ships
- Norwalk agent
- croup,laryngotracheobronchitis, seal-bark cough
- Parainfluenze virus
- picornavirus,destruction of the anterior horn of the spinal cord, denervation atrophy, flaccid paralysis
- Poliovirus
- sympathetic over activity due to binding of virus to nicotinic acetylcholine receptors
- Rabies virus
- postexposure vaccination indicated due to long incubation period
- Rabies virus
- aversion to water and foaming at the mouth
- Rabies virus
- virion is bullet shaped and causes Negri bodies
- Rabies virus
- most important virus associated with lower respiratory tract infection in infants,multinucleated syncytia
- RSV (Respiratory syncytial virus)
- picornavirus, ICAM-1 for attachment, major cause of upper respiratory infections
- Rhinovirus
- reovirus, 10-12 segments dsRNA with two concentric capsids, most common cause of diarrhea in children
- Rotavirus
- teratogenic virus, defects of the heart, brain, and eye, member of TORCH group
- Rubella virus
- Flavivirus, encephalitis due to mosquito bites, blood transfusion, and organ transplants, life threatening in elderly and immunocompromised
- West Nile Virus
- Arbovirus, severe hepatitis, black vomit
- Yellow fever virus