KEGG DISEASE: West Nile fever

DISEASE: West Nile fever

Entry

H01548                      Disease

Name

West Nile fever;
West Nile virus infection

Supergrp

Mosquito-borne viral fever [DS:H00382]
Arthropod-borne viral fever [DS:H00383]

Description

West Nile fever is an infectious disease caused by West Nile virus (WNV), a flavivirus in the Flaviviridae family of +ssRNA viruses, and transmitted by Culex mosquitoes. WNV was first isolated in 1937 in Uganda.

Category

Viral infectious disease

Brite

Human diseases in ICD-11 classification [BR:br08403]
01 Certain infectious or parasitic diseases
  Certain arthropod-borne viral fevers
   1D46  West Nile virus infection
    H01548  West Nile fever
Genome-based classification of infectious diseases [BR:br08401]
Viral infections
  Infections caused by +ssRNA viruses
   H01548  West Nile fever

Pathway

hsa04060

Cytokine-cytokine receptor interaction

hsa04061

Viral protein interaction with cytokine and cytokine receptor

hsa04062

Chemokine signaling pathway

Gene

CCR5 (susceptibility) [HSA:1234] [KO:K04180]

Pathogen

West Nile virus [GN:T40029]

Other DBs