Open AccessICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Peribunyaviridae
Author(s) -
Holly R. Hughes,
Scott Adkins,
Sergey Alkhovskiy,
Martin Beer,
Carol D. Blair,
Charles H. Calisher,
Mike Drebot,
Amy J. Lambert,
William Marciel de Souza,
Marco Marklewitz,
Márcio R.T. Nunes,
Xia Shi
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of general virology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.55
H-Index - 167
eISSN - 1465-2099
pISSN - 0022-1317
DOI - 10.1099/jgv.0.001365
Subject(s) - biology , reassortment , virology , virus classification , taxonomy (biology) , transmission (telecommunications) , orthobunyavirus , arthropod , vector (molecular biology) , virus , zoology , genetics , ecology , gene , infectious disease (medical specialty) , covid-19 , pathology , genome , electrical engineering , engineering , medicine , recombinant dna , disease
Peribunyaviruses are enveloped and possess three distinct, single-stranded, negative-sense RNA segments comprising 11.2-12.5 kb in total. The family includes globally distributed viruses in the genera Orthobunyavirus , Herbevirus , Pacuvirus and Shangavirus . Most viruses are maintained in geographically-restricted vertebrate-arthropod transmission cycles that can include transovarial transmission from arthropod dam to offspring. Others are arthropod-specific. Arthropods can be persistently infected. Human infection occurs through blood feeding by an infected vector arthropod. Infections can result in a diversity of human and veterinary clinical outcomes in a strain-specific manner. Segment reassortment is evident between some peribunyaviruses. This is a summary of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) Report on the taxonomy of the family Peribunyaviridae , which is available at ictv.global/report/peribunyaviridae.