Colorado tick fever is an infectious disease caused by Colorado tick fever virus (CTFV), a cortivirus in the Reoviridae family of dsRNA viruses, and transmitted by Rocky Mountain wood tick (Dermacentor andersoni). CTFV was first isolated in 1944 in the Rocky Mountain region.
Category
Viral infectious disease
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Human diseases in ICD-11 classification [BR:br08403]
01 Certain infectious or parasitic diseases
Certain arthropod-borne viral fevers
1D41 Colorado tick fever
H02165 Colorado tick fever
Genome-based classification of infectious diseases [BR:br08401]
Viral infections
Infections caused by dsRNA viruses
H02165 Colorado tick fever
