Ross River fever is an infectious disease caused by Ross River virus (RRV), an alphavirus in the Togaviridae family of +ssRNA viruses, and transmitted by Aedes and Culex mosquitoes. RRV was first isolated in 1972 near Ross River in North Queensland, Australia.
Category
Viral infectious disease
Brite
Human diseases in ICD-11 classification [BR:br08403]
01 Certain infectious or parasitic diseases
Certain arthropod-borne viral fevers
1D4D Ross River disease
H00397 Ross River fever
Genome-based classification of infectious diseases [BR:br08401]
Viral infections
Infections caused by +ssRNA viruses
H00397 Ross River fever