ARTHROPOD-BORNE AND RODENT BORNE VIRAL DISEASES

Arthropod-borne viruses (arboviruses) and rodent borne viruses

represent complex transmission cycles involving arthropods or rodents.
Classifid among Arenaviridae, Bunyaviridae, Flaviviridae, Reoviridae
and Togaviridae families.
Filoviridae African Hemorrhagic fever viruses
Arbovirus transmitted by bloodsucking arthropods from one
vertebrae host to another.
- The vector acquires a life long infection through the ingestion of
blood from a viremic vertebrae
- They multiple in the tissues of arthropod without evidence of
disease and damage
- Some arbovirus are maintained in nature by transvorian
transmission in arthropods.
- Major arbovirus diseases worldwide
Yellow Fever
Dengue
Japanese B Encephalitis
St. Louis Encephalitis
Western Equine Encephalitis
Eastern Equine Encephalitis
Tick Borne Encephalitis
West Nile Fever
Sandfly Fever
- Most important Arbovirus in United States
La Crosse encephalitis
West Nile Fever
St Louis Encephalitis
Eastern Equine Encephalitis and Western Equine Encephalitis

Rodent Borne Viral diseases are maintained in nature by direct

intraspecies or interspecies transmission from rodent to rodent without
arthropod vectors.
- Transmission: Contact with body fluids or excretions
Major Rodent Borne Diseases
Hantavirus infections
Lassa fever
South American Hemorrhagic fevers
Most important rodent-borne in the US:
Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome
Colorado tick fever
**African hemorrhagic fevers: Marnburg and Ebola (unknown
reservoirs but are suspected to be rodents or bats)