hemorrhagic fevers
Types
arthropod-borne viral infections prevalent in southern Africa
- chikungunya fever
- Sindbis fever
- West Nile fever (West Nile virus)
- yellow fever
- Rift Valley fever
viral infections associated with rodents
- Lassa fever
viral infection associated with monkeys
- rickettsial infections
- tick-bite fever
- spotted fever of tick typhus occurring in southern Africa)
- Q fever
-
bacterial infections
- coccal infections
- plague septicemia
- meningococcal
- staphylococcal
- streptococcal septicemia
- blood protozoal infections
- malaria
- trypanosomiases
viral infections
- rubella
non-infectious diseases
- Gasser syndrome
- Henoch-Schonlein purpura
- viperine snakebite
See also
hemorrhagic state (systemic hemorrhages)
infectious agents (infecting organisms)
viruses
rickettsiae
bacterias
protozoas
coagulation cascade
fibrin formation
fibrin deposits in microvasculature (thrombotic microangiopathy)
aggregation of platelets and entanglement of platelets
marked thrombocytopenia
bleeding
coagulation factors
- prothrombin
References
Gear JH. Hemorrhagic fevers, with special reference to recent outbreaks in southern Africa. Rev Infect Dis. 1979 Jul-Aug;1(4):571-91. PMID: 399369