Venezuelan equine encephalitis is an infection of the central nervous system caused by Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus (VEEV), an alphavirus in the Togaviridae family of +ssRNA viruses, and transmitted by Ochlerotatus mosquitoes. VEEV was first isolated in 1938 in Venezuela.
Category
Viral infectious disease
Brite
Human diseases in ICD-11 classification [BR:br08403]
01 Certain infectious or parasitic diseases
Viral infections of the central nervous system
1C8C Venezuelan equine encephalitis
H01547 Venezuelan equine encephalitis
Genome-based classification of infectious diseases [BR:br08401]
Viral infections
Infections caused by +ssRNA viruses
H01547 Venezuelan equine encephalitis
