Arboviruses

Overview

Arboviruses — An ARBOvirus is an ARthropd BOrne

virus
- transmitted by arthropods such as mosquitoes, fleas, and ticks
Examples include
- flaviviruses
  - yellow fever
  - dengue fever
  - West Nile virus
  - St. Louis encephalitis
  - Zika virus
- togaviruses
  - Western equine encephalitis virus
  - Eastern equine encephalitis virus
  - chikungunya virus
- bunyaviruses
  - California encephalitis virus
  - Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever
  - Rift Valley fever
Vectors
- Ixodes tick
  - Borrelia burgdorferi
  - Babesia
  - Ehrlichia
- Dermacentor tick (dog tick)
  - Francisella tularensis
- Louse
  - Rickettsia prowazekii
- Mite
  - Orientia tsutsugumushi
- Aedes genus mosquitos
  - Zika virus
  - yellow fever
  - chikungunya
  - dengue fever