TY  - CHAP
M1  - Book, Section
TI  - Other Zoonotic and Vector-Borne Illnesses: Ebola and Other Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers
A1  - Choi, Mary J.
A1  - Kofman, Aaron D.
A1  - Graziano, James
A2  - Boulton, Matthew L.
A2  - Wallace, Robert B.
PY  - 2022
T2  - Maxcy-Rosenau-Last Public Health & Preventive Medicine, 16e
AB  - Hemorrhagic  fevers  caused  by  viruses  are  generally  rare  diseases,  but  some,  like  Ebola,  have  attracted  sufficient  attention  from  the  press  and  laypeople  that  they  have  become  part  of  our  normal  vocabulary.  The  clinical  condition  known  as  hemorrhagic  fever  is  quite  variable  and  may  result  from  infection  with  any  one  of  several  different  viruses  or  bacteria.  In  general,  they  present  as  a  febrile  disease  that  can  progress  to  manifest  some  degree  of  hemorrhage,  often  in  the  form  of  increased  capillary  permeability,  which  may  lead  to  death  in  a  significant  proportion  of  those  clinically  ill.  The  number  of  distinct  viruses  able  to  cause  hemorrhagic  fevers  continues  to  grow  as  we  recognize  new  viruses,  such  as  those  associated  with  hantavirus  pulmonary  syndrome  and  the  arenaviruses  of  South  America  (Table  139-1).  All  hemorrhagic  fever  viruses,  with  the  possible  exception  of  dengue  viruses,  are  zoonotic  agents  that  exist  in  nature  in  a  silent  cycle  that  involves  nonhuman  vertebrate  hosts  and  often  arthropod  vectors.  Transmission  to  humans  is  by  the  bite  of  an  infectious  vector,  by  small  particle  aerosol  from  infectious  urine  or  feces  of  an  infectious  host,  or  through  nosocomial  transmission,  often  under  conditions  where  routine  safe  hospital  practices  are  not  being  followed.  Hemorrhagic  fever  viruses  do  not  share  a  common  taxonomic  origin;  they  are  found  among  different  virus  families:  Arenaviridae,  Hantaviridae,  Nairoviridae,  Phenuiviridae,  Filoviridae,  and  Flaviviridae.  
SN  - 
PB  - McGraw Hill
CY  - New York, NY
Y2  - 2024/04/23
UR  - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1182666902
ER  -