Barmah Forest virus

a species of Alphavirus that has caused outbreaks of polyarthritis in humans in Australia; transmitted by mosquitoes.

[the virus was first isolated from mosquitoes collected at the Barmah Forest in southeastern Australia in 1974]

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Bar·mah For·est vi·rus

(bahr'mă fōr'ĕst vī'rus)

A species of Alphavirus that has caused outbreaks of polyarthritis in humans in Australia; transmitted by mosquitoes.

[The virus was first isolated from mosquitoes collected at the Barmah Forest in southeastern Australia in1974]

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