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23 de nov. de 2022 · Causes. Complications. Prevention. Overview. Mumps is an illness caused by a virus. It usually affects the glands on each side of the face. These glands, called parotid glands, make saliva. Swollen glands may be tender or painful. Salivary glands. There are three pairs of major salivary glands — parotid, sublingual and submandibular.
8 de mar. de 2021 · Last Reviewed: March 8, 2021. Source: National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD), Division of Viral Diseases. Mumps is a contagious disease caused by a virus that spreads from person to person. Typical symptoms of mumps include swollen salivary glands and a fever.
The risk of spreading the virus increases the longer and the closer the contact a person has with someone who has mumps. The infectious period is considered from 2 days before to 5 days after parotitis onset, although virus has been isolated from saliva as early as 7 days prior to and up to 9 days after parotitis onset.
1 de may. de 2024 · Mumps infection typically presents with a prodrome of headache, fever, fatigue, anorexia, and malaise, followed by the classic hallmark of the disease, parotitis. Common complications of mumps include orchitis, oophoritis, mastitis, pancreatitis, encephalitis, and aseptic meningitis.
5 de mar. de 2020 · Mumps is an important childhood infectious disease caused by mumps virus (MuV). We reviewed the epidemiology, pathogenesis, and vaccine development of mumps. Previous studies were identified using the key words “mumps” and “epidemiology”, “pathogenesis” or “vaccine” in MEDLINE, PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, and Google Scholar.
31 de ene. de 2005 · Mumps is an acute disease of children and young adults, caused by a paramyxovirus of which there is only a single serotype. Humans are the only known host for mumps virus, which is spread via direct contact or by airborne droplets from the upper respiratory tract of infected individuals.
