Disease Vectors: Invertebrates or non-human vertebrates which transmit infective organisms from one host to another.

Vectors and Vector-borne Diseases

Vectores y enfermedades transmitidas por vectores

Microscopic infectious agent that can multiply only in living cells of animals, plants, or bacteria, consisting of genetic material, either DNA or RNA, housed inside a capsid.

Viruses

Mosquito-borne diseases

Enfermedades Transmitidas por Mosquitos

West Nile encephalitis virus. Encephalitis caused by a virus of the Flaviviridae family. Causes West Nile fever, which is characterized by headache, fever, arthralgia, maculopapular rash, myalgia, lymphadenopathy and leukopenia. Transmitted and/or spread by mosquitoes from the genus Culex (family Culicidae).
Entry terms: Kunjin virus, West Nile flavivirus, WNV (West Nile virus), KUNV (Kunjin virus)
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West Nile Virus

Virus del oeste del Nilo 

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Virus del oeste del Nilo

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