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ICTV virus taxonomy profile: Peribunyaviridae

  • Holly R. Hughes
  • , Scott Adkins
  • , Sergey Alkhovskiy
  • , Martin Beer
  • , Carol Blair
  • , Charles H. Calisher
  • , Mike Drebot
  • , Amy J. Lambert
  • , William Marciel De Souza
  • , Marco Marklewitz
  • , Márcio R.T. Nunes
  • , Xiǎohóng Shí

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Abstract

Peribunyaviruses are enveloped and possess three distinct, single-stranded, negative-sense RNA segments comprising 11.2–12.5 kb in total. The family includes globally distributed viruses in the genera Orthobunyavirus, Herbevirus, Pacuvirus and Shangavirus. Most viruses are maintained in geographically-restricted vertebrate–arthropod transmission cycles that can include transovarial transmission from arthropod dam to offspring. Others are arthropod-specific. Arthropods can be persistently infected. Human infection occurs through blood feeding by an infected vector arthropod. Infections can result in a diversity of human and veterinary clinical outcomes in a strain-specific manner. Segment reassortment is evident between some peribunyaviruses. This is a summary of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) Report on the taxonomy of the family Peribunyaviridae, which is available at ictv.global/report/peribunyaviridae.

Original languageEnglish
Article number1365
Pages (from-to)1-2
Number of pages2
JournalJournal of General Virology
Volume101
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2020

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
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Funding

Production of this summary,the online chapter,and associated resources was funded by a grant from the Wellcome Trust (WT108418AIA). W. M. S. is supported by Fundac\u0327a\u0303o de Amparo a\u0300 Pesquisa do Estado de Sa\u0303o Paulo, Brazil (17/13981\u20130).

FundersFunder number
Wellcome TrustWT108418AIA, 108418
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo17/13981–0

    Keywords

    • Bunyavirus
    • Herbevirus
    • ICTV Report
    • Orthobunyavirus
    • Pacuvirus
    • Peribunyaviridae
    • Shangavirus
    • Taxonomy

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Virology

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