ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Nairoviridae.

Garrison, Aura R; Alkhovsky Альховский Сергей Владимирович, Sergey V; Avšič-Županc, Tatjana; Bente, Dennis A; Bergeron, Éric; Burt, Felicity; Di Paola, Nicholas; Ergünay, Koray; Hewson, Roger; Kuhn, Jens H; +6 more... Mirazimi, Ali; Papa Άννα Παπά, Anna; Sall, Amadou Alpha; Spengler, Jessica R; Palacios, Gustavo; Consortium, Ictv Report; (2020) ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Nairoviridae. Journal of General Virology, 101 (8). pp. 798-799. ISSN 0022-1317 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1099/jgv.0.001485

Abstract

Members of the family Nairoviridae produce enveloped virions with three single-stranded RNA segments comprising 17.1 to 22.8 kb in total. These viruses are maintained in arthropods and transmitted by ticks to mammals or birds. Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus is tick-borne and is endemic in most of Asia, Africa, Southern and Eastern Europe whereas Nairobi sheep disease virus, which is also tick-borne, causes lethal haemorrhagic gastroenteritis in small ruminants in Africa and India. This is a summary of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) Report on the family Nairoviridae, which is available at ictv.global/report/nairoviridae.

Additional Information

Item Type	Article
Faculty and Department	Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases > Department of Infection Biology
PubMed ID	32840475
Elements ID	195336
Official URL	http://dx.doi.org/10.1099/jgv.0.001485