How To Use flavivirus In A Sentence
- Safety issues with the live flavivirus vaccines need to be recognised and addressed.
- Like other flaviviruses, West Nile virus is a small, single stranded, positive sense RNA virus comprising about 11 000 nucleotides wrapped in a nucleocapsid and surrounded by a lipid membrane.
- West Nile virus is a single-stranded RNA flavivirus with antigenic similarities to Japanese encephalitis and St. Louis encephalitis viruses.
- Other flaviviruses are yellow fever, Japanese encephalitis, dengue, and Saint Louis encephalitis.
- Japanese encephalitis virus is the most important and widespread flavivirus in terms of human morbidity and mortality.
- West Nile virus is a flavivirus within the Japanese encephalitis serocomplex, which includes St Louis encephalitis, yellow fever, and dengue fever.
- Initial serological tests pointed to St Louis encephalitis virus (the American sister of the neurotropic flaviviruses, which caused encephalitis epidemics in America in the 1930s, but is not normally found this far north).
- Objective:To establish a high throughput DNA microarray method for rapidly screening human viral pathogens, and to verify its effectiveness by detecting Flavivirus.
- West Nile virus is an important arthropod borne flavivirus; it usually causes a mild infection called West Nile fever in humans and horses.
- Although we can do little to limit the spread of enzootic flaviviruses, we can minimise the number of human cases.
