Virus
dengue virus
den·gue vi·rus [ deng-gey, -gee vahy-ruhs ]
Subclass of:
Flavivirus
Definitions related to dengue virus:
  • A species of enveloped and spherical viruses with a capsid with T=3 icosahedral symmetry in the Flaviviridae family and Flavivirus genus. The genome is composed of non-segmented, single-stranded, positive-sense RNA. Dengue viruses are found in non-human primates and humans and cause dengue fever in humans. Dengue viruses are transmitted mainly via the bite of infected mosquitoes of the genus Aedes.
    NCI
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • A species of the genus FLAVIVIRUS which causes an acute febrile and sometimes hemorrhagic disease in man. Dengue is mosquito-borne and four serotypes are known.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025
  • Any viral organism that can be assigned to the species Dengue virus.
    CDISC Terminology
    Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
  • Species of the genus Flavivirus which causes an acute febrile and sometimes hemorrhagic disease in man; causes classic dengue and hemorrhagic dengue.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
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