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. 2024 Apr;105(4):001975.
doi: 10.1099/jgv.0.001975.

ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Hantaviridae 2024

Steven B Bradfute  1 , Charles H Calisher  2 , Boris Klempa  3 , Jonas Klingström  4 , Jens H Kuhn  5 , Lies Laenen  6 , Nicole D Tischler  7   8 , Piet Maes  9
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ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Hantaviridae 2024

Steven B Bradfute et al. J Gen Virol. 2024 Apr.

Abstract

Hantaviridae is a family for negative-sense RNA viruses with genomes of about 10.5-14.6 kb. These viruses are maintained in and/or transmitted by fish, reptiles, and mammals. Several orthohantaviruses can infect humans, causing mild, severe, and sometimes-fatal diseases. Hantavirids produce enveloped virions containing three single-stranded RNA segments with open reading frames that encode a nucleoprotein (N), a glycoprotein precursor (GPC), and a large (L) protein containing an RNA-directed RNA polymerase (RdRP) domain. This is a summary of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) Report on the family Hantaviridae, which is available at ictv.global/report/hantaviridae.

Keywords: Hantaviridae; ICTV Report; hantavirus; orthohantavirus; taxonomy.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest.

Figures

Fig. 1.
Fig. 1.. Electron micrograph of (mammalian) Tula virus particles, adapted with permission from [6]. Scale bar 50 nm.
Fig. 2.
Fig. 2.. Genome organisation of Hantaan virus. GPC, glycoprotein precursor gene; L, large (protein) gene; N, nucleoprotein gene.
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