Viruses and diseases
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Adenovirus | respiratory infection, conjunctivitis |
| Parvovirus | B19 (fifth disease/erythema infectiosum, fetal death, aplastic crisis) |
| Reoviridae | Rotavirus (infantile gastroenteritis) |
| Filoviridae | Ebola virus (ebola), marburg virus |
| Paramyxoviridae | Parainfluenza virus; Mumps virus; Respiratory syncytial virus; Morbillivirus (mumps); Pneumovirus; Metapneumovirus |
| Orthomyxoviridae | Influenza A, B and C |
| Picornaviridae | Enterovirus (Poliovirus, coxsackie A and B, echovirus, enterovirus), Rhinovirus, Heparnavirus |
| Caliciviridae | Norwalk (gastroenteritis) |
| Flaviviridae | Yellow fever virus (yellow fever); Hepatitis C (hepatitis) |
| Togaviridae | Eastern Equine encephalitis virus (encephalitis); Rubella virus (rubella) |
| HSV-1 | Cold sores, encephalitis |
| HSV-2 | Herpes genitalis, meningitis |
| reactivation of varicella-zoster virus | Herpes zoster, herpes zoster ophthalmicus |
| Epstein-Barr virus | Infectious mononucleosis |
| Cytomegalovirus | congenital (birth defects, low birth weights, microcephaly), STD, blood/organ transplants, immunosuppressed patients |
| Human herpesvirus 6 and 7 | Exanthem subitum (Roseola) in children and in AIDS patients |
| Human herpesvirus 8 | Kaposi-Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus |
| Poxvirus | Molluscum contagiosum, smallpox |
| Picornavirus | Poliomyelitis (polio) |
| Rhinovirus | common cold |
| Coxsackievirus A16 | Hand-foot-and-mouth disease |
| Coxsackievirus A | herpangina |
| Coxsackievirus B | Myocardial or pericardial infection (high mortality) |
| Coxsackievirus or echovirus | viral meningitis |
| Norovirus | food-borne gastroenteritis; cruise ships |
| Parainfluenza virus | croup |
| Coronavirus | SARS, common cold |
| Respiratory syncytial virus | bronchiolitis and pneumonia in infants and children |
| Mumps virus | •Epidemic parotitis; painful swelling of parotid salivary glands •Humans = only reservoir. •Long-term immunity. •Live attenuated vaccine MMR |
| Morbillivirus | Mumps, measles |
| Paramyxoviruses | distemper virus in dogs and seals; morbillivirus in dolphins and porpoises; Newcastle disease virus (birds); Rinderpest virus (cows) |
| Henipavirus | zoonotic, reservoir is fruit bats |
| Henipavirus (paramyxoviridae family) | Hendra virus (HeV) and Nipah virus (NiV)- biosafety level 4 |
| Pneumovirus | Respiratory syncitial virus (RSV; bronchiolitis and pneumonia) and Metapneumovirus (colds, bronchiolitis, and pneumonia) |
| Metapneumovirus | colds, bronchiolitis, and pneumonia |
| Influenza | respiratory symptoms and the classic flulike symptoms of fever, malaise, headache and myalgias |
| Rhabdovirus | rabies |
| Ebola virus | widespread tissue necrosis; endothelial damage leads to vascular injury and bleeding; hemorrhage leads to hypovolemic shock; severe hemorrhagic fever; fatal in 90% of infections |
| Rotavirus | Human infantile gastroenteritis- endemic, severe diarrheal illness |
| Flavivirus | Yellow fever, West Nile encephalitis |
| Arbovirus | Flavivirus and togavirus |
| Flavivirus | Hepatitis C virus |
| Togavirus | Rubivirus (cause of rubella) |
| Yellow fever | high fever, yellowing of skin and eyes, coffee-ground emesis, severe liver damage, severe renal tubule damage; mosquito vector; "re-emerging disease" |
| Togavirus | Western and Eastern equine encephalitis (WEE and EEE) |
| Western and Eastern equine encephalitis (WEE and EEE) | low-grade, flulike symptoms; can progress to encephalitis; resolves spontaneously; mosquito vector |
| Flavivirus | West Nile virus |
| West Nile virus | Headache, Fever, Rash, Fatigue, Weakness; rare cause of encephalitis and paralysis; mosquito vector |
| Bunyavirus | California encephalitis; Rift Valley fever; Korean hemorrhagic fever; American _____ = hantavirus, A.K.A. Sin Nombre - emerging disease |
| Arenavirus | Lassa fever, Argentine hemorrhagic fever, Bolivian hemorrhagic fever, and Lymphocytic choriomeningitis |
| Hepatitis A Virus | causes jaundice in high percentage of cases; oral-fecal route; spread in daycare; no chronic infection |
| Hepatitis B Virus | the only DNA virus; transmitted via blood, STD; causes chronic persistent and active hepatitis; leads to hepatocellular carcinoma and cirrhosis of liver |
| Hepatitis C Virus | transmitted via blood; no protective antibody response identified; leads to chronic persistent hepatitis, chronic active hepatitis, cirrhosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma but less than HBV |
| Hepatitis D Virus | similarity to viroids in plants; coinfection and superinfection with HBV; transmitted sexually and through blood |
| Hepatitis E Virus | calicivirus-like; transmitted through fecally contaminated drinking water |
| Prions | Causes transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) in humans and animals and neurodegenerative diseases with long incubation periods |
| Prions | Kuru, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), and Variant CJD (vCJD) |
| Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) | alteration in the structure of normal PrP protein found in the brain that results in nerve cell death, spongiform damage, and severe loss of brain function |
| Papillomavirus | warts |
| Polyomavirus | BK and JC viruses; associated with renal disease (BK) and progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy, aka PML (JC) in immunosuppressed people |
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