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Pathogens - Top 100

Dengue fever, characterized by fever, severe pain in the muscles and joints, as well as leukopenia and the formation of lymphadenitis.
Omsk hemorrhagic fever is an endemic disease transmitted through the bites of mites of the genus Dermacentor and sometimes by infection with direct and indirect contact with muskrats or water rats.
The family Bunyaviridae (from the name of the Bunyamvera in Africa) is the largest by the number of its included viruses (over 250). This is a typical ecological group of arboviruses.
The Arenaviridae family consists of one genus, including more than a dozen antigenically related representatives. Four of them cause severe diseases, usually with hemorrhagic syndrome: lymphocytic choriomeningitis (LXM), Lassa fever, Junin and Machupo fevers.
The family Reoviridae consists of 3 genera: reoviruses, rotaviruses and orbiviruses. Representatives of the orbiviruses are the viruses of Colorado tick-borne fever, the viruses of the Kemerovo group, and others.
Hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) is an acute serious infectious disease characterized by systemic lesions of small vessels, hemorrhagic diathesis, hemodynamic disorders ...
Rabies - an acute infectious disease caused by a rhabdovirus - occurs when a person bites a sick animal or when it comes to the damaged skin or mucous membrane of the saliva of a sick animal.
These causative agents of diseases, proceeding according to the type of hemorrhagic fevers, have been described relatively recently and have been little studied. They are classified in a separate family Filoviridae with a single genus Filovirus.
The Poxviridae family includes two subfamilies: Chordopoxvirinae, which includes vertebrate pox viruses, and Entomopoxvirinae, which unites insect pox viruses.
Viruses belonging to this family have a number of the following features, peculiar only to them.

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