Bourbon virus

English

Etymology

Discovered in 2014 in a case in Bourbon County, Kansas by Olga Kosoy.

Proper noun

Bourbon virus

1. (pathology, neologism) A virus believed to be in species Dhori thogotovirus in family Orthomyxoviridae, a tick-borne virus discovered in 2014 that has caused at least one fatality in an otherwise healthy man
   • 2015 May, Olga I. Kosoy, Amy J. Lambert, Dana J. Hawkinson, Daniel M. Pastula, Cynthia S. Goldsmith, D. Charles Hunt, J. Erin Staples, “Novel Thogotovirus Associated with Febrile Illness and Death, United States, 2014”, in Emerging Infectious Diseases, volume 21, number 5 (in English), pages 760–764:

     On the basis of limited information for our case-patient, health care providers might consider Bourbon virus as a potential infectious etiology in patients in whom fever, leukopenia, and thrombocytopenia develop without a more likely explanation and who have shown negative results for other tickborne diseases (e.g., ehrlichiosis, anaplasmosis, or Heartland virus disease) or have not responded to doxycycline therapy.

   • 2015 August 25, World Journal of Clinical Infectious Diseases, volume 5, number 3:

     Rickettsioses caused by Rickettsia parkeri or by R. assiliae or the Bourbon virus disease caused by Bourbon virus, a new virus thought to be transmitted by ticks, serve as examples.

   • 2016, Joy Xiaomin Su, Truth Vs Illusion: What Is Life About?‎^[1]:

     And early last year, a new disease-causing virus, the Bourbon virus, was reported for the first time.

   • 2016 May, S. Moutailler, I. Popovici, E. Devillers1, M. Vayssier-Taussat, M. Eloit, “Diversity of viruses in Ixodes ricinus, and characterization of a neurotropic strain of Eyach virus”, in New Microbes and New Infections, volume 11, pages 71–81:

     A proportion of these viruses are zoonotic (severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus in China, the Heartland virus and the Bourbon virus in the USA) but the pathogenicity of many others is poorly documented.

Hypernyms

• Articulavirales - order; Orthomyxoviridae - family; Thogotovirus - genus; Dhori thogotovirus - species

References

• Bourbon virus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Thogotovirus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Orthomyxoviridae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Bourbon virus at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Bourbon virus at Encyclopedia of Life
• Thogotovirus at World Register of Marine Species
• Thogotovirus at International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses