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