"Rift Valley fever virus" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A mosquito-borne species of the PHLEBOVIRUS genus found in eastern, central, and southern Africa, producing massive hepatitis, abortion, and death in sheep, goats, cattle, and other animals. It also has caused disease in humans.
| Descriptor ID |
D012296
|
| MeSH Number(s) |
B04.820.087.710.700
|
| Concept/Terms |
|
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Rift Valley fever virus".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Rift Valley fever virus".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Rift Valley fever virus" by people in this website by year, and whether "Rift Valley fever virus" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
To see the data from this visualization as text,
click here.
| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
|---|
| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
To return to the timeline,
click here.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Rift Valley fever virus" by people in Profiles.
-
Serum levels of inflammatory cytokines in Rift Valley fever patients are indicative of severe disease. Virol J. 2015 Oct 06; 12:159.
-
Pathogenic effects of Rift Valley fever virus NSs gene are alleviated in cultured cells by expressed antiviral short hairpin RNAs. Antivir Ther. 2012; 17(4):643-56.
-
Anti-nucleocapsid protein immune responses counteract pathogenic effects of Rift Valley fever virus infection in mice. PLoS One. 2011; 6(9):e25027.