Arthropod‐borne Viruses

Charles H Calisher, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA

Published online: September 2007

DOI: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0001005.pub2

Arthropod-borne viruses (arboviruses) are those that replicate in insects and then can be transmitted by those insects to vertebrates. Arboviral diseases are very common, causing a wide variety of illnesses in humans, livestock and wildlife.

Keywords: arboviruses; arthropods; fever; rash; encephalitis; haemorrhagic

 Further Reading
    book Bloom KJ (1993) The Mississippi Valley's Great Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press.
    book Calisher CH and Thompson WH (eds) (1983) "California Serogroup Viruses, Proceedings of an International Symposium Held in Cleveland, Ohio, November 12 and 13, 1982". In: Progress in Clinical and Biological Research, vol. 123. NewYork: Liss.
    book Knipe DM, Howley PM and Griffin DE et al. (eds) (2006) Fields Virology, 5th edn. Baltimore, MD: Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins.
    book Lennette EH and Smith TF (eds) (1999) Laboratory Diagnosis of Viral Infections, 3rd edn. New York: Marcel Dekker.
    book Monath TP (ed.) (1980) St Louis Encephalitis. Washington DC: American Public Health Association.
    book Monath TP (ed.) (1988) The Arboviruses: Epidemiology and Ecology. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.
    book Reeves WC (1990) Epidemiology and Control of Mosquito-Borne Arboviruses in California, 1943–1987. Sacramento, CA: Californian Mosquito and Vector Control Association.
    book Strode GK (1951) Yellow Fever. New York: McGraw-Hill.

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Viruses Infecting Humans | RNA Viruses | Viruses Infecting Animals
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Calisher, Charles H(Sep 2007) Arthropod‐borne Viruses. In: eLS. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester. http://www.els.net [doi: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0001005.pub2]