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Illness caused by a Barmah Forest‐like virus in New South Wales
Author(s) -
Boughton Clement R.,
Hawkes Royle A.,
Nairn Helen M.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1988.tb112780.x
Subject(s) - alphavirus , togaviridae , arbovirus , alphavirus infection , geography , ross river virus , biology , ecology , virology , virus
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.