Ross river virus

Epidemiology

• etiologic agent of Ross river fever
• transmitted by mosquitoes
• endemic to Australia, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Samoa, the Cook Islands, New Caledonia and several other islands in the South Pacific
• the virus was first isolated in 1959 from a mosquito trapped along the Ross River in Townsville, Queensland Australia

Laboratory

• Ross river virus serology
• Ross river virus RNA

More general terms

• togaviridae