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Review
. 2020 Aug;101(8):798-799.
doi: 10.1099/jgv.0.001485. Epub 2020 Aug 24.

ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Nairoviridae

Aura R Garrison  1 , Sergey V Alkhovsky  2 , Tatjana Avšič-Županc  3 , Dennis A Bente  4 , Éric Bergeron  5 , Felicity Burt  6 , Nicholas Di Paola  1 , Koray Ergünay  7 , Roger Hewson  8 , Jens H Kuhn  9 , Ali Mirazimi  10 , Anna Papa  11 , Amadou Alpha Sall  12 , Jessica R Spengler  5 , Gustavo Palacios  1 , Ictv Report Consortium
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ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Nairoviridae

Aura R Garrison et al. J Gen Virol. 2020 Aug.

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.

Keywords: Bunyavirales; ICTV Report; Nairoviridae; bunyavirus; nairovirus; orthonairovirus; shaspivirus; striwavirus; taxonomy.

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Figures

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Fig. 1.
(a) Transmission electron micrograph of a Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus particle. (b) Schematic illustration of a nairovirus particle.
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Fig. 2.
Schematic representation of nairovirus genome organization.
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