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Species of virus
Tensaw orthobunyavirus is a
virus in the genus
Orthobunyavirus of the
Bunyamwera
arbovirus group, order
Bunyavirales .
[1]
[2] It is named for the
river bordering the area in south
Alabama where the prototype
strain was discovered.
[1] It is abbreviated TEN , TENV , and TSV in the scientific literature.
[1]
Ecology
Tensaw virus has been isolated from
mosquitoes in southwest
Alabama , southeast
Georgia , and central and south
Florida .
[3]
[4] Host mosquitoes include
Anopheles crucians ,
Psorophora ciliata ,
Psorophora confinnis ,
Anopheles quadrimaculatus ,
Aedes atlanticus ,
Aedes mitchellae ,
Culex nigripalpus , and
Mansonia perturbans .
[1]
[3]
[5]
Disease
The virus produces
clinical disease and
death in suckling and adult mice but not in
hamsters ,
guinea pigs , or
rabbits .
[1] Antibodies or virus have been detected in
dogs ,
raccoons ,
cattle , and
humans , but no evidence of infection has been found in sentinel
chickens or wild
birds .
[3]
Serum samples from humans in south Florida have tested positive for
neutralizing antibodies to Tensaw virus,
[2]
[6] but clinical disease from Tensaw virus infection in humans had not been reliably demonstrated as of 2006.
[7]
Evidence that
Bunyamwera serogroup viruses in North America are associated with congenital defects such as
macrocephaly and
microcephaly in humans suggests the possibility that Tensaw virus and other viruses of the family Bunyaviridae may have
teratogenic potential in humans.
[8]
References
^
a
b
c
d
e Coleman PH (1969).
"Tensaw virus, a new member of the Bunyamwera arbovirus group from the Southern United States" . Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg . 18 (1): 81–91.
doi :
10.4269/ajtmh.1969.18.81 .
PMID
5764201 .
^
a
b Watts SL, Garcia-Maruniak A, Maruniak JE (2009). "Tensaw virus genome sequence and its relation to other Bunyaviridae". Virus Genes . 39 (3): 309–18.
doi :
10.1007/s11262-009-0400-z .
PMID
19760176 .
S2CID
21792011 .
^
a
b
c Chamberlain RW, Sudia WD, Coleman PH (1969).
"Isolations of an arbovirus of the Bunyamwera group (Tensaw virus) from mosquitoes in the Southeastern United States, 1960–1963" . Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg . 18 (1): 92–7.
doi :
10.4269/ajtmh.1969.18.92 .
PMID
4387750 .
^
Calisher CH , Francy DB, Smith GC, Muth DJ, Lazuick JS, Karabatsos N, Jakob WL, McLean RG (1986).
"Distribution of Bunyamwera serogroup viruses in North America, 1956–1984" . Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg . 35 (2): 429–43.
doi :
10.4269/ajtmh.1986.35.429 .
PMID
2869708 .
^ Wozniak A, Dowda HE, Tolson MW, Karabatsos N, Vaughan DR, Turner PE, Ortiz DI, Wills W (2001). "Arbovirus surveillance in South Carolina, 1996-98". J. Am. Mosq. Control Assoc . 17 (1): 73–8.
PMID
11345423 .
^ Calisher CH, Lazuick JS, Lieb S, Monath TP, Castro KG (1988).
"Human infections with Tensaw virus in south Florida: evidence that Tensaw virus subtypes stimulate the production of antibodies reactive with closely related Bunyamwera serogroup viruses" . Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg . 39 (1): 117–22.
doi :
10.4269/ajtmh.1988.39.117 .
PMID
2899978 .
^ Campbell GL, Mataczynski JD, Reisdorf ES, Powell JW, Martin DA, Lambert AJ, Haupt TE, Davis JP, Lanciotti RS (2006).
"Second human case of Cache Valley virus disease" . Emerging Infect. Dis . 12 (5): 854–6.
doi :
10.3201/eid1205.051625 .
PMC
3374447 .
PMID
16704854 .
^ Calisher CH, Sever JL (1995).
"Are North American Bunyamwera serogroup viruses etiologic agents of human congenital defects of the central nervous system?" . Emerging Infect. Dis . 1 (4): 147–51.
doi :
10.3201/eid0104.950409 .
PMC
2626893 .
PMID
8903187 .
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