Quick Review Cards for Medical Laboratory Science

Human RNA Virusescontinued Clinical Microbiology Review 281

COMMON FAMILY NAME REPRESENTATIVE VIRUSES INFECTION(S)

Paramyxoviruses

Picornaviruses

Reoviruses

Retroviruses

Rhabdoviruses

Togaviruses

RTI = respiratory tract infection.

Measles (rubeola)

Mumps

RTI in children

RTI in infants, elderly, immunocompromised

RTI

Polio, hand-foot-mouth disease, aseptic meningitis,

others

Hepatitis A

Common cold

Most common cause of gastroenteritis in infants

& children

AIDS

T-cell leukemia & lymphoma, tropical spastic paraparesis

Rabies

Rubella (German measles)

Eastern, Western, & Venezuelan encephalitis

Measles virus

Mumps virus

Parainfluenza virus

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)

Human metapneumovirus (HMPV)

Enteroviruses (polioviruses, coxsackieviruses A

& B, echoviruses, enteroviruses)

Hepatitis A virus (HAV)

Rhinovirus

Rotavirus

Human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV-1,

HIV-2)

Human T-lymphotropic viruses (HTLV-1, HTLV-2)

Rabies virus

Rubella virus

Eastern, Western, & Venezuelan equine

encephalitis viruses