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Ross river virus

Epidemiology: - etiologic agent of Ross river fever - transmitted by mosquitoes - endemic to Australia, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Samoa, the Cook Islands, New Caledonia and several other islands in the South Pacific - the virus was first isolated in 1959 from a mosquito trapped along the Ross River in Townsville, Queensland Australia Laboratory: - Ross river virus serology - Ross river virus RNA

General

togaviridae

Properties

KINGDOM: virus GENOME-TYPE: RNA SINGLE-STRANDED POSITIVE-STRAND GENOME-SIZE: 12 kB ENVELOPE: PRESENT CAPSID-SYMMETRY: ICOSAHEDRAL

References

  1. Wikipedia: Ross River Fever http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_River_fever