Alenquer virus

{{Short description|Species of virus}} {{virusbox | name = Alenquer virus | parent = Phlebovirus | species = Phlebovirus alenquerense | synonyms = * ''Alenquer phlebovirus'' | synonyms_ref = <ref>{{cite web|title=History of the taxon: Species: ''Phlebovirus alenquerense'' (2024 Release, MSL #40)|url=https://ictv.global/taxonomy/taxondetails?taxnode_id=202407609&taxon_name=Phlebovirus%20alenquerense|publisher=International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses|access-date=19 March 2025}}</ref> }}

'''Alenquer virus''' ('''ALEV''') is a virus in the genus ''Phlebovirus''.<ref name=Mahy /> Alenquer virus was one of eight arthropod-borne viruses first isolated in the early 1980s from sites along roads built into the Amazon rainforest in Brazil for settlers.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Travassos da Rosa|first1=AP|last2=Tesh|first2=RB|last3=Pinheiro|first3=FP|last4=Travassos da Rosa|first4=JF|last5=Peterson|first5=NE|title=Characterization of eight new phlebotomus fever serogroup arboviruses (Bunyaviridae: Phlebovirus) from the Amazon region of Brazil.|journal=The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene|date=September 1983|volume=32|issue=5|pages=1164–71|pmid=6312820|doi=10.4269/ajtmh.1983.32.1164|url=http://patua.iec.gov.br//handle/iec/2679 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> Sporadic cases of febrile illness have occurred in humans who live in jungle areas in Brazil and Panama.<ref>{{cite book|author1= Douglas Richman|author2= Douglas D. Richman|author3= Richard J. Whitley|title=Clinical virology|date=2009|publisher=ASM Press|location=Washington, DC|isbn=978-1555814250|edition=3rd}}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name=Mahy>{{cite book|last=Mahy|first=Brian W.J.|title=The Dictionary of Virology|url=https://archive.org/details/dictionaryvirolo00mahy|url-access=limited|year=2009|publisher=Academic Press|page=[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryvirolo00mahy/page/n18 12]|isbn=9780123737328 }}</ref> }}

Category:Phleboviruses Category:Serology