University of Delaware Homepage
Department of Medical Technology

Disease and Pathogenesis of the Mumps Virus
<=(Rubulavirus)                          Epidemiology=>

- Rubulavirus

- Disease and pathogenesis

- Epidemiology

- Signs and symptoms

- Significance of patient history

- Diagnosis

- Prevention and Treatment

- Human parainfluenza virus

- Other viruses of Rubulavirus genus

-Sources

The Mumps virus is the causative agent of Mumps, a viral childhood disease.  Since MuV is an enveloped virus, it is not well suited to survive outside a host.  Therefore, it can only be transmitted by direct contact or by droplet spread, in which the reservoir is another human. 

 

The major sites of Muv replication include the eyes, the GI tract, and the epithelium cells of the upper respiratory tract.3  After establishing itself in these tissues, it spreads to the lymphoid tissue then into the blood (septicemia).  Other tissues affected by the virus include the central nervous system, the pancreas, the testis, and the ovaries.3

 

 rubulavirus
Child with Mumps 

<=(Rubulavirus)                          Epidemiology=>

This website was last updated on November 1, 2008 by Alaa as a class project for the Department of Medical Technology in the University of Delaware.

- Alaa's Homepage

Questions/ Comments

Department of Medical Technology | 305 Willard Hall Education Building | University of Delaware | Newark, DE 19716
phone 302-831-2849 | fax 302-831-4180