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Descriptor English: Rift Valley Fever
Descriptor Spanish: Fiebre del Valle del Rift
Descriptor fiebre del valle del Rift
Scope note: Infección aguda causada por el VIRUS DE LA FIEBRE DEL VALLE DEL RIFT, un virus ARN vehiculado por artrópodos que afecta a los animales domésticos y los seres humanos. En los animales causa HEPATITIS, aborto (ABORTO VETERINARIO) y MUERTE. En los seres humanos sus manifestaciones son variables, desde enfermedad pseudogripal hasta fiebre hemorrágica, ENCEFALITIS o CEGUERA.
Descriptor Portuguese: Febre do Vale de Rift
Descriptor French: Fièvre de la Vallée du Rift
Entry term(s): Fever, Rift Valley
Tree number(s): C01.436.430.812
C01.920.852.813
C01.925.081.810
C01.925.407.810
C01.925.782.147.810
C01.925.782.417.762
C06.552.380.315.430.812
C22.467.435.812
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D012295
Scope note: An acute infection caused by the RIFT VALLEY FEVER VIRUS, an RNA arthropod-borne virus, affecting domestic animals and humans. In animals, symptoms include HEPATITIS; abortion (ABORTION, VETERINARY); and DEATH. In humans, symptoms range from those of a flu-like disease to hemorrhagic fever, ENCEPHALITIS, or BLINDNESS.
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CL classification
CO complications
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EH ethnology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
RT radiotherapy
SU surgery
TH therapy
TM transmission
UR urine
VI virology
DeCS ID: 12707
Unique ID: D012295
NLM Classification: WC 524
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2004/07/07
Rift Valley Fever - Preferred
Concept UI M0019114
Scope note An acute infection caused by the RIFT VALLEY FEVER VIRUS, an RNA arthropod-borne virus, affecting domestic animals and humans. In animals, symptoms include HEPATITIS; abortion (ABORTION, VETERINARY); and DEATH. In humans, symptoms range from those of a flu-like disease to hemorrhagic fever, ENCEPHALITIS, or BLINDNESS.
Preferred term Rift Valley Fever
Entry term(s) Fever, Rift Valley



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