Sandfly fever is an infectious disease caused by Sandfly fever Naples virus (SFNV), a phlebovirus in the order Bunyavirales of -ssRNA viruses, and transmitted by biting midges and mosquitoes. SFNV was first isolated in 1943 in Italy.
Category
Viral infectious disease
Brite
Human diseases in ICD-11 classification [BR:br08403]
01 Certain infectious or parasitic diseases
Certain arthropod-borne viral fevers
1D45 Sandfly fever
H02164 Sandfly fever
Genome-based classification of infectious diseases [BR:br08401]
Viral infections
Infections caused by -ssRNA viruses
H02164 Sandfly fever