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Review
. 2019 Jun;100(6):911-912.
doi: 10.1099/jgv.0.001252. Epub 2019 Apr 25.

ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Filoviridae

Jens H Kuhn  1 , Gaya K Amarasinghe  2 , Christopher F Basler  3 , Sina Bavari  4 , Alexander Bukreyev  5 , Kartik Chandran  6 , Ian Crozier  7 , Olga Dolnik  8 , John M Dye  4 , Pierre B H Formenty  9 , Anthony Griffiths  10 , Roger Hewson  11 , Gary P Kobinger  12 , Eric M Leroy  13 , Elke Mühlberger  10 , Sergey V Netesov Нетёсов Сергей Викторович  14 , Gustavo Palacios  4 , Bernadett Pályi  15 , Janusz T Pawęska  16 , Sophie J Smither  17 , Ayato Takada 高田礼人  18 , Jonathan S Towner  19 , Victoria Wahl  20 , Ictv Report Consortium
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Review

ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Filoviridae

Jens H Kuhn et al. J Gen Virol. 2019 Jun.

Abstract

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.

Keywords: Filoviridae; ICTV Report; ebolavirus; filovirus; marburgvirus; taxonomy.

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The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest.

Figures

Fig. 1.
Fig. 1.
Electron microscopic images of Marburg virus particles budding from infected Vero E6 cells, (a) scanning EM, (b) transmission EM. Images are colourized for clarity. Courtesy of John G. Bernbaum and Jiro Wada, IRF-Frederick.
Fig. 2.
Fig. 2.
Schematic representation of the genome organization of Marburg virus. Courtesy of Jiro Wada, IRF-Frederick.
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