ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Arenaviridae

Sheli R Radoshitzky; Michael J Buchmeier; Rémi N Charrel; J Christopher S Clegg; Jean-Paul J Gonzalez; Stephan Günther; Jussi Hepojoki; Jens H Kuhn; Igor S Lukashevich; Víctor Romanowski; Maria S Salvato; Manuela Sironi; Mark D Stenglein; Juan Carlos de la Torre; Ictv Report Consortium

doi:10.1099/jgv.0.001280

ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Arenaviridae

J Gen Virol. 2019 Aug;100(8):1200-1201. doi: 10.1099/jgv.0.001280. Epub 2019 Jun 13.

Authors

Sheli R Radoshitzky¹, Michael J Buchmeier², Rémi N Charrel³, J Christopher S Clegg⁴, Jean-Paul J Gonzalez⁵, Stephan Günther⁶, Jussi Hepojoki^{7

8}, Jens H Kuhn⁹, Igor S Lukashevich¹⁰, Víctor Romanowski¹¹, Maria S Salvato¹², Manuela Sironi¹³, Mark D Stenglein¹⁴, Juan Carlos de la Torre¹⁵, Ictv Report Consortium

Affiliations

¹ United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Frederick, MD 21702, USA.
² Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA.
³ Unité des Virus Emergents, Aix-Marseille Univ, Marseille, France.
⁴ Les Mandinaux, 16450 Le Grand Madieu, France.
⁵ Center of Excellence for Emerging and Zoonotic Animal Disease, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66502, USA.
⁶ Department of Virology, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, 20359 Hamburg, Germany.
⁷ Department of Virology, Medicum, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
⁸ Institute of Veterinary Pathology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
⁹ NIH/NIAID/IRF-Frederick, Fort Detrick, MD 21702, USA.
¹⁰ Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, School of Medicine, and the Center for Predictive Medicine for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40202, USA.
¹¹ IBBM, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata - CONICET, La Plata, Argentina.
¹² Institute of Human Virology, University of Maryland School of Medicine,, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA.
¹³ Bioinformatics, Scientific Institute IRCCS E. MEDEA, 23842 Bosisio Parini, Italy.
¹⁴ Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA.
¹⁵ Department of Immunology and Microbiology IMM-6, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.

PMID: 31192784
DOI: 10.1099/jgv.0.001280

Abstract

Members of the family Arenaviridae produce enveloped virions containing genomes consisting of two or three single-stranded RNA segments totalling about 10.5 kb. Arenaviruses can infect mammals, including humans and other primates, snakes, and fish. This is a summary of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) Report on the family Arenaviridae, which is available at www.ictv.global/report/arenaviridae.

Keywords: Arenaviridae; ICTV Report; arenavirus; mammarenavirus; reptarenavirus; taxonomy.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Animals
Arenaviridae / classification*
Arenaviridae / genetics*
Arenaviridae / isolation & purification
Arenaviridae / ultrastructure
Arenaviridae Infections / veterinary*
Arenaviridae Infections / virology*
Fishes
Genome, Viral
Humans
Phylogeny
RNA, Viral / genetics
Reptiles
Viral Proteins / genetics

Substances

RNA, Viral
Viral Proteins

Grants and funding

WT108418AIA/WT_/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom