Paramyxoviridae
Paramyxoviridae Robert A. Lamb Griffith D. Parks The Paramyxoviridae include some of the great and ubiquitous disease-causing viruses of humans and animals, including one of the most infectious viruses known…
Filoviridae: Marburg and Ebola Viruses
Filoviridae: Marburg and Ebola Viruses Heinz Feldmann Anthony Sanchez Thomas W. Geisbert Classification Taxonomy Filoviruses are taxonomically classified within the order Mononegavirales, a large group of enveloped viruses whose genomes…
Rhabdoviridae
Rhabdoviridae Douglas S. Lyles Ivan V. Kuzmin Charles E. Rupprecht The family Rhabdoviridae consists of more than 185 different viruses isolated from both plants and animals. They are enveloped viruses…
Mononegavirales
Mononegavirales Robert A. Lamb The Eighth Report of the International Committee on the Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) (2005)1 has recognized a hierarchy of viral taxa as follows: (order), family, (subfamily),…
Arteriviruses
Arteriviruses Eric J. Snijder Marjolein Kikkert History and Classification of Arteriviruses The family Arteriviridae68 was established in 1996 and currently comprises the following four enveloped, plus-stranded RNA viruses: equine arteritis…
Coronaviridae
Coronaviridae Paul S. Masters Stanley Perlman History Coronaviruses are enveloped RNA viruses that are broadly distributed among humans, other mammals, and birds, causing acute and persistent infections. Members of this…
Hepatitis C Virus
Hepatitis C Virus Stuart C. Ray Justin R. Bailey David L. Thomas History By the mid-1970s, it was apparent that at least one viral hepatitis agent other than hepatitis A…
Flaviviruses
Flaviviruses Theodore C. Pierson Michael S. Diamond Flaviviruses acquired their name from the jaundice associated with the liver dysfunction caused by yellow fever virus (YFV) infections. YFV played an important…
Flaviviridae
Flaviviridae Brett D. Lindenbach Catherine L. Murray Heinz-Jürgen Thiel Charles M. Rice Introduction The first human virus was discovered over one century ago when Walter Reed demonstrated that yellow fever…
Rubella Virus
Rubella Virus Tom C. Hobman Rubella virus (RV) is the etiologic agent of rubella, a mild exanthematous disease associated with low-grade fever, lymphadenopathy, and a short-lived morbilliform rash. Rubella was…
