Diseases

Yellow Fever

An acute infectious disease primarily of the tropics, caused by a virus and transmitted to man by mosquitoes of the genera Aedes and Haemagogus. The severe form is characterized by fever, HEMOLYTIC JAUNDICE, and renal damage.

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An acute infectious disease primarily of the tropics, caused by a virus and transmitted to man by mosquitoes of the genera Aedes and Haemagogus. The severe form is characterized by fever, HEMOLYTIC JAUNDICE, and renal damage.

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  • Fever, Yellow
  • Fevers, Yellow
  • Yellow Fevers

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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, transmission, urine, veterinary, virology.

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Yellow Fever. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D015004. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D015004
  2. Yellow Fever. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_fever
  3. Yellow Fever. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q154874