RUBULAVİRUS :MUMPS :
Respiratory droplets, direct contact, or fomites
1 serotype
immunity is usually long-lasting
there is no animal reservoir
inflammation of salivary glands a disease typical of chilhood. it is releated with swallowing of the neck
systemic disease
it inoculated by the respiratory tract, it replicates in the upper respiratory tract, during this replication, after it drained to lymphoid in blood and we have
viremia. This can spread viruses in
everywhere. And we have a systemic infection. Therefore, Virus can infect the target organs 1st target organ is parotid glands that cause swallowing of these glands and cause local inflammation,but
the virus infected ‘testes, ovaries, peripheral nerves, eye, inner ear. And it can also infect pancreas ,CNS
COMPLİCATİONS OF MUMPS : meningitis,orchitis pancreatitis ,myocarditis,
DİAGNOSİS: is usually clinical bc the symptoms are very particular . In atypical forms, viral isolation in cell culture and detection of viral antigens by immunofluorescence
VACCİNE: attenuated virus contain measles mumps and rubella MMR vaccine
no antiviral agents are avaible