Skip to main content

Medical Subject Headings

Search from vocabulary

Content language

Concept information

Infections > Virus Diseases > Arbovirus Infections > African Horse Sickness
Infections > Vector Borne Diseases > Arbovirus Infections > African Horse Sickness
Infections > Virus Diseases > RNA Virus Infections > Reoviridae Infections > African Horse Sickness
Animal Diseases > Horse Diseases > African Horse Sickness

Preferred term

African Horse Sickness  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • African Horsesickness
  • African Horsesicknesses
  • Equine Plague
  • Equine Plagues
  • Horsesickness, African
  • Horsesicknesses, African
  • Plague, Equine
  • Plagues, Equine

Note

  • caused by an Orbivirus; in horses, mules & donkeys; if in horses don't forget also HORSES (NIM) & check tag ANIMALS; if in mules or donkeys, coord IM with EQUIDAE (IM) & check tag ANIMALS

Scope note

  • An insect-borne reovirus infection of horses, mules and donkeys in Africa and the Middle East; characterized by pulmonary edema, cardiac involvement, and edema of the head and neck.

History note

  • 98

In other languages

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D000355

Download this concept:

RDF/XML TURTLE JSON-LD Created 1/1/99, last modified 4/5/23