Mayaro fever
| Classification according to ICD-10 | |
|---|---|
| A92.8 | Other specified mosquito-borne viral diseases |
| ICD-10 online (WHO version 2019) | |
The Mayaro fever is a disease whose cause is an infection with the Mayaro virus is. The virus is a 70 nanometer large, enveloped virus from the family of Alpha viruses .
The infection occurs in the tropical rainforest in South America by mosquitoes of the genus Haemagogus , presumably in urban areas in the South American tropics or subtropics also by the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti .
Humans can develop a flu-like illness, Mayaro fever, which is clinically similar to dengue fever but is milder.
The name refers to the Mayaro region on the island of Trinidad, where the virus was first detected in 1954.
literature
- RB Tesh, DM Watts, KL Russell, C. Damodaran, C. Calampa, C. Cabezas, G. Ramirez, B. Vasquez, CG Hayes, CA Rossi, AM Powers, CL Hice, LJ Chandler, BC Cropp, N. Karabatsos , JT Roehrig, DJ Gubler: Mayaro virus disease: an emerging mosquito-borne zoonosis in tropical South America. In: Clinical Infectious Diseases . Vol. 28, No. 1, January 1999, pp. 67-73, doi: 10.1086 / 515070 , PMID 10028074 .
- AL Hoch, NE Peterson, JW LeDuc, FP Pinheiro: An outbreak of Mayaro virus disease in Belterra, Brazil. III. Entomological and ecological studies. In: The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene. Vol. 30, No. 3, May 1981, pp. 689-698, PMID 6266265 .
