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Viruses > RNA Viruses > Encephalitis Viruses > Encephalitis Virus, Eastern Equine

Preferred term

Encephalitis Virus, Eastern Equine  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Eastern equine encephalitis virus
  • Eastern Equine Encephalomyelitis Virus
  • EEE Virus
  • EEE Viruses
  • Encephalomyelitis Virus, Eastern Equine

Note

  • infection: coordinate with ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, EQUINE but see note there

Scope note

  • A species of ALPHAVIRUS causing encephalomyelitis in Equidae and humans. The virus ranges along the Atlantic seaboard of the United States and Canada and as far south as the Caribbean, Mexico, and parts of Central and South America. Infections in horses show a mortality of up to 90 percent and in humans as high as 80 percent in epidemics.

History note

  • 91(75); was see under ALPHAVIRUSES 1981-90; was see under ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES 1975-80

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D004663

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