Guajara virus

Guazara virus is one of the types of viruses belonging to the genus Buongiorno virus and family. Bunyaviridae. Its name comes from the city of Guajara, where it was first discovered. It is an arbovirus, which is a virus transmitted through a mosquito bite.

The virus belongs to the Himalayan bunya group of the subfamily Anboviridae and is caused by meningelitis infection. Meninitis, in turn, causes inflammation of the lining of the brain. Viral infection of meninges occurs through skin cuts and mosquito bites. Infection can also occur through contact with infected materials, such as infected blood or semen. At first, Guazara virus was limited to one region of South America, but it is now common in many countries and is one of the most common causes of meningitis in India and Africa.

Guajara virus - V. rola bunyaviruses, fam. Bunyaviruses, Guam antigenic group, ecology. a group of arboveros, pathogenicity for humans has not been established. A cluster of Guasharu disease, caused by this virus and characterized by fever with maculopapular rashes on the skin of the wrists, was discovered at the end of the 20th century on the island of Guam, and then in several other remote places in the Pacific Ocean - Guvaolu, the Samoan Islands, Paraguana and Ubivis. Four decades later, a similar clinical picture was reproduced in patients on the islands of Mbaul, Batak, in the city of Mindanao, Philippines, where fever and visceral lesions of unknown origin were also observed. In the 80s, some epidemiological and virological hospitals in the countries of the Pacific region, such as South Africa and Argentina, noted a similar group of morbidity cases, as well as deaths from diseases that manifested themselves as influenza-like syndrome, fever with hemorrhagic syndrome, cerebral complications, nephritis and fever. These facts provide good reason to believe that the virus, which causes painful manifestations in Europeans, American Indians, and natives of the Philippine Islands, may have antigenic or typological similarity to seven other viruses called the Guamean virus group. A team of authors in 26 countries (Austria, Denmark, Norway