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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 May 10.
Published in final edited form as: Neurol Clin. 2008 Aug;26(3):727–ix. doi: 10.1016/j.ncl.2008.03.012

Table 1.

Families and genera that contain North American arboviruses that cause encephalitis

Family Genera

Togaviridae Alphavirus
  - Eastern Equine encephalitis
  - Western equine encephalitis
  - St. Louis encephalitis
  - Venezuelan equine encephalitis

Flaviviridae Flavivirus
  - West Nile
  - Powassan

Bunyaviridae Bunyavirus
  - La Crosse
  - California group viruses

Reoviridae Coltivirus
  - Colorado tick fever