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. 2019 Dec;100(12):1593-1594.
doi: 10.1099/jgv.0.001328. Epub 2019 Oct 11.

ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Paramyxoviridae

Bert Rima  1 , Anne Balkema-Buschmann  2 , William G Dundon  3 , Paul Duprex  4 , Andrew Easton  5 , Ron Fouchier  6 , Gael Kurath  7 , Robert Lamb  8 , Benhur Lee  9 , Paul Rota  10 , Linfa Wang  11 , Ictv Report Consortium
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ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Paramyxoviridae

Bert Rima et al. J Gen Virol. 2019 Dec.

Abstract

The family Paramyxoviridae consists of large enveloped RNA viruses infecting mammals, birds, reptiles and fish. Many paramyxoviruses are host-specific and several, such as measles virus, mumps virus, Nipah virus, Hendra virus and several parainfluenza viruses, are pathogenic for humans. The transmission of paramyxoviruses is horizontal, mainly through airborne routes; no vectors are known. This is a summary of the current International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) Report on the family Paramyxoviridae. which is available at ictv.global/report/paramyxoviridae.

Keywords: ICTV Report; Paramyxoviridae; Taxonomy.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest.

Figures

Fig. 1.
Fig. 1.
Paramyxovirus virion structure. (a) Negative-contrast electron micrograph of intact measles virus particle (genus Morbillivirus). Bar: 100 nm. (b) Schematic diagram of paramyxovirus particle in cross-section.
Fig. 2.
Fig. 2.
Paramyxovirus genome structure (not to scale). Open reading frames (ORFs) are labelled as in Figure 1. Non-coloured regions represent untranslated regions in the mRNAs.
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