Illness caused by a Barmah Forest-like virus in New South Wales.
Barmah Forest virus, a recently-discovered arbovirus which belongs to the alphavirus genus of the family Togaviridae, has been shown to cause infections in humans in New South Wales. The present report documents three patients in whom Barmah Forest viral infection appears to have resulted in illness. Barmah Forest virus or a closely-related alphavirus may, as are several other alphaviruses, be pathogenic.
Boughton
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Arbovirus Research Unit, School of Microbiology, University of New South Wales, Kensington.
Hawkes
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Naim
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D000328:Adult; D000524:Alphavirus; D005260:Female; D005334:Fever / Q000209:etiology; D006261:Headache / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D007596:Joints; D008297:Male; D010146:Pain / Q000209:etiology; D014036:Togaviridae Infections / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*