Respiratory Syncytial Virus and Metapneumovirus Peter L. Collins Ruth A. Karron History Human respiratory syncytial virus (HRSV) was first isolated in 1955 from a laboratory chimpanzee with illness resembling the…
Henipaviruses Lin-Fa Wang John S. Mackenzie Christopher C. Broder History Hendra virus (HeV), the first known member of the genus Henipavirus in the family Paramyxoviridae, came to light in September…
Measles Virus Diane E. Griffin Measles is a highly contagious disease characterized by a prodromal illness of fever, coryza, cough, and conjunctivitis followed by the appearance of a generalized maculopapular…
Mumps Virus Steven A. Rubin Christian J. Sauder Kathryn M. Carbone History In the 5th century BC, Hippocrates described a mild epidemic illness associated with nonsuppurative swelling near the ears…
Parainfluenza Viruses Ruth A. Karron Peter L. Collins History The four serotypes of human parainfluenza virus types 1 to 4 (HPIV1 to HPIV4) were first recovered between 1956 and 1960,…
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 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 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 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 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…
