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Infections > Virus Diseases > RNA Virus Infections > Hemorrhagic Fevers, Viral

Preferred term

Hemorrhagic Fevers, Viral  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Note

  • general or unspecified; prefer specifics; if renal involvement, disease is probably HEMORRHAGIC FEVER WITH RENAL SYNDROME

Scope note

  • A group of viral diseases of diverse etiology but having many similar clinical characteristics; increased capillary permeability, leukopenia, and thrombocytopenia are common to all. Hemorrhagic fevers are characterized by sudden onset, fever, headache, generalized myalgia, backache, conjunctivitis, and severe prostration, followed by various hemorrhagic symptoms. Hemorrhagic fever with kidney involvement is HEMORRHAGIC FEVER WITH RENAL SYNDROME.

History note

  • 78; was EPIDEMIC HEMORRHAGIC FEVER 1963-76; several specifics became headings & x-refs as of 1977

In other languages

  • virusverenvuotokuumeet

    Finnish

  • febris haemorrhagica
  • febris haemorrhagica viralis non specificata
  • icke specificerad hemorragisk febersjukdom orsakad av virus
  • määrittämätön virusperäinen verenvuotokuume
  • verenvuotokuume
  • verenvuotokuumeet
  • viraalinen verenvuotokuume
  • viraaliset verenvuotokuumeet
  • virusperäinen verenvuotokuume
  • virusperäiset verenvuotokuumeet
  • virusverenvuotokuume
  • Hemorragiska febrar, virala

    Swedish

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D006482

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