Clinical features and laboratory diagnosis of emerging arthropod-transmitted viruses
| Autor: | Eleanor A. Powell, Meghan W. Starolis, Omar Perez |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
| Předmět: |
0301 basic medicine
medicine.medical_specialty biology business.industry Public health 030106 microbiology Outbreak medicine.disease biology.organism_classification Eastern equine encephalitis medicine.disease_cause Arbovirus Zika virus 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Infectious Diseases Virology medicine 030212 general & internal medicine Chikungunya Intensive care medicine business Clinical virology Arthropod Vector |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Clinical Virology. 132:104651 |
| ISSN: | 1386-6532 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jcv.2020.104651 |
| Popis: | Arthropod-borne viruses (arboviruses) are an increasing global threat due to their ability to cause human disease and their expanding geographical distribution. They circulate in nature between arthropod vectors and vertebrate hosts. Infection of susceptible human hosts leads to harmful developmental and neurological manifestations. Arboviruses have caused recent outbreaks with significant public health implications, such as the Zika virus outbreak in the western hemisphere which caused fetal abnormalities in some infected pregnant women, or Eastern Equine Encephalitis which caused 15 deaths in 2019. This review discusses several arboviral infections and their clinical manifestations while highlighting the importance of laboratory diagnostics to detect infections and current attempts at vaccine development. The ability to accurately diagnose an arbovirus infection is critical for initiating a timely response to infections in order to improve patient outcomes. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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