ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Filoviridae.

Jens H Kuhn ; Gaya K Amarasinghe ; Christopher F Basler ; Sina Bavari ; Alexander Bukreyev ; Kartik Chandran ; Ian Crozier ; Olga Dolnik ; John M Dye ; Pierre BH Formenty ; +14 more... Anthony Griffiths ; Roger Hewson

; Gary P Kobinger ; Eric M Leroy ; Elke Mühlberger ; Sergey V Netesov Нетёсов Сергей Викторович ; Gustavo Palacios ; Bernadett Pályi ; Janusz T Pawęska ; Sophie J Smither ; Ayato Takada 高田礼人 ; Jonathan S Towner ; Victoria Wahl ; Ictv Report Consortium ; (2019) ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Filoviridae. Journal of General Virology, 100 (6). pp. 911-912. ISSN 0022-1317 DOI: 10.1099/jgv.0.001252

Copy

Members of the family Filoviridae produce variously shaped, often filamentous, enveloped virions containing linear non-segmented, negative-sense RNA genomes of 15-19 kb. Several filoviruses (e.g., Ebola virus) are pathogenic for humans and are highly virulent. Several filoviruses infect bats (e.g., Marburg virus), whereas the hosts of most other filoviruses are unknown. This is a summary of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) Report on Filoviridae, which is available at www.ictv.global/report/filoviridae.