RGD uses the Human Disease Ontology (DO, https://disease-ontology.org/) for disease curation across species. RGD automatically downloads each new release of the ontology on a monthly basis. Some additional terms which are required for RGD's curation purposes but are not currently covered in the official version of DO have been added. As corresponding terms are added to DO, these custom terms are retired and the DO terms substituted in existing annotations and subsequently used for curation.
A viral infectious disease that results in inflammation located in brain, has_material_basis_in West Nile virus, which is transmitted_by Culex, Aedes, or Anopheles species of mosquitoes. The infection has_symptom high fever, has_symptom headache, has_symptom neck stiffness, has_symptom stupor, has_symptom disorientation, has_symptom coma, has_symptom tremors, has_symptom convulsions, has_symptom muscle weakness, has_symptom vision loss, has_symptom numbness, and has_symptom paralysis. (DO)
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West Nile fever encephalitis; West Nile fever with encephalitis