Encephalitis Virus, Eastern Equine
"Encephalitis Virus, Eastern Equine" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A species of ALPHAVIRUS causing encephalomyelitis in Equidae and humans. The virus ranges along the Atlantic seaboard of the United States and Canada and as far south as the Caribbean, Mexico, and parts of Central and South America. Infections in horses show a mortality of up to 90 percent and in humans as high as 80 percent in epidemics.
| Descriptor ID |
D004663
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B04.820.230.150 B04.820.850.054.320
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| Concept/Terms |
Encephalitis Virus, Eastern Equine- Encephalitis Virus, Eastern Equine
- Encephalomyelitis Virus, Eastern Equine
- Eastern Equine Encephalomyelitis Virus
- Eastern equine encephalitis virus
- EEE Virus
- EEE Viruses
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Encephalitis Virus, Eastern Equine" by people in Profiles.
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Chimeric alphavirus vaccine candidates for chikungunya. Vaccine. 2008 Sep 15; 26(39):5030-9.