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Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers

Clinics in Laboratory Medicine, 2003
A taxonomically diverse set of single-stranded ribonucleic acid(ssRNA) viruses from four diverse viral families Arenaviridae,Bunyaviridae, Filoviridae, and Flaviviridae cause an acute systemic febrile syndrome called viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF).
Aileen M, Marty   +2 more
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Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever

Science, 1996
New results in this issue of Science by Olson et al. ( p. 884 ) report a way to genetically engineer mosquitoes so they cannot transmit dengue fever to humans. This first successful effort to express an exogenous gene that confers resistance to an important human ...
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Argentine Hemorrhagic Fever

1987
Argentine hemorrhagic fever (AHF), an endemoepidemie disease of viral etiology, is geographically restricted to the central area of the Pampas, in the heart of the richest farmlands of Argentina. Unknown before the 1950s, its salient clinical features are hematologic and neurologic signs, including a febrile syndrome, together with varying degrees of ...
M C, Weissenbacher   +2 more
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Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever

Journal of Special Operations Medicine, 2014
Ebola hemorrhagic fever is an often-fatal disease caused by a virus of the Filoviridae family, genus Ebolavirus. Initial signs and symptoms of the disease are nonspecific, often progressing on to a severe hemorrhagic illness. Special Operations Forces Medical Providers should be aware of this disease, which occurs in sporadic outbreaks throughout ...
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Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever

Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases, 2007
Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever is a tick-borne viral zoonosis with the potential of human-to-human transmission, affecting wide areas in Asia, Southeastern Europe, and Africa. Hemorrhagic manifestations constitute a prominent symptom of late stage disease with case fatality rates from 10% to 50%.
Regina, Vorou   +2 more
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Argentine hemorrhagic fever vaccines

Human Vaccines, 2011
Argentine hemorrhagic fever (AHF), an acute disease caused by Junin virus (JUNV, Arenaviridae), has been an important issue to public health in Argentina since the early 1950s. The field rodent Calomys musculinus is JUNV natural reservoir and human disease is a consequence of contact with infected rodents.
Ana, Ambrosio   +4 more
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Hemorrhagic Fever II. Prevention

The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1954
Summary Personal protection is the most important single aspect of the control program against hemorrhagic fever and consists of personally applied insect repellent and impregnating the outer clothing by dipping it into a standard miticide, 1–17 dilution, at least once monthly or after every third washing, preferably at the time of laundering.
S C, DEWS, I H, MARSHALL
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LATIN AMERICAN HEMORRHAGIC FEVER

Infectious Disease Clinics of North America, 1994
Several viral and bacterial agents are responsible for hemorrhagic fever in Latin America, but there are three agents that are only present in this region: (1) the Junin virus, (2) the Machupo virus, and (3) the Guanaritovirus, members of the Tacaribe complex of the family Arenaviridae and responsible for the Argentinian, Bolivian, and Venezuelan ...
B, Vainrub, R, Salas
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Viral hemorrhagic fevers

2008
This chapter discusses viral hemorrhagic fevers (VHF), a group of acute systemic illnesses that classically involve fever, a constellation of initially nonspecific signs and symptoms, and a propensity for bleeding and shock. VHFs are caused by small, single-stranded, lipid-enveloped RNA viruses from four families: Arenaviridae, Bunyaviridae ...
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