Bourbon virus

English Etymology Discovered in 2014 in a case in Bourbon County, Kansas by Olga Kosoy. Proper noun en disease neologism A virus believed to be in species Dhori thogotovirus species in family Orthomyxoviridae family 1, a tick-borne virus discovered in 2014 that has caused at least one fatality in an otherwise healthy man en mul Emerging Infectious Diseases 2015 May 21 5 760–764 Novel Thogotovirus Associated with Febrile Illness and Death, United States, 2014 Olga I. Kosoy; Amy J. Lambert; Dana J. Hawkinson; Daniel M. Pastula; Cynthia S. Goldsmith; D. Charles Hunt; J. Erin Staples On the basis of limited information for our case-patient, health care providers might consider Bourbon virus as a potential infectious etiology in patients in whom fever, leukopenia, and thrombocytopenia develop without a more likely explanation and who have shown negative results for other tickborne diseases (e.g., ehrlichiosis, anaplasmosis, or Heartland virus disease) or have not responded to doxycycline therapy. en World Journal of Clinical Infectious Diseases 5 3 August 25, 2015 Rickettsioses caused by Rickettsia parkeri or by R. assiliae or the Bourbon virus disease caused by Bourbon virus, a new virus thought to be transmitted by ticks, serve as examples. en Truth Vs Illusion: What Is Life About? https://books.google.com/books?isbn=150435088X Joy Xiaomin Su 2016 And early last year, a new disease-causing virus, the Bourbon virus, was reported for the first time. en New Microbes and New Infections 11 May 2016 71–81 Diversity of viruses in Ixodes ricinus, and characterization of a neurotropic strain of Eyach virus S. Moutailler; I. Popovici; E. Devillers1; M. Vayssier-Taussat; M. Eloit A proportion of these viruses are zoonotic (severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus in China, the Heartland virus and the Bourbon virus in the USA) but the pathogenicity of many others is poorly documented. Hypernyms Articulavirales order - order; Orthomyxoviridae family 1 - family; Thogotovirus genus - genus; Dhori thogotovirus species - species References 1 Thogotovirus 1 Orthomyxoviridae 1 1618189 32141696 600307 Thogotovirus 20132319 Thogotovirus en Tick-borne diseases Viral diseases