Published Nov 12, 2007
rachiee
41 Posts
hello everyone pls help me with this question! i cant for the life of me find the micro organism that causes ross river virus (epidemic polyoarthritis) every page i go to on the internet just says something along the lines of ross river virus is a virus transferred by mosquitos, but not actually what the virus is, or what micro organisms cause it. i need to write an essay on the micro organism that causes it please help me
APBT mom, LPN, RN
717 Posts
Here's what I found. This is he site that says what it is
http://www.healthdirect.gov.au/topics/Ross_River_Virus I went here first clicked on the first article and it sent me here
http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/bhcv2/bhcarticles.nsf/pages/Ross_River_disease The first line says it a alphavirus. Here's the definition and there is also a link in the article.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphavirus (this is wikipedia so make sure that you can use it as a resource)
This site tells is the classification of the virus.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ICTVdb/ICTVdB/00.073.0.01.htm
I found all of this in about two minutes. If you use a search engine to find articles or information sometimes if you change the words around or sustitute a word for another it will bring up what you are looking for.
Hope this helps.
thanks for ur help but im really after the micro organism that causes it! I have all the rest of the information Im so stuck
kendel
230 Posts
here is the information:
ross river v. an arbovirus of the genus alphavirus that is the etiologic agent of epidemic polyarthritis.