List of viruses
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A virus is a small infectious agent that can replicate only inside the living cells of organisms. Viruses infect all types of organisms, from animals and plants to bacteria and archaea...
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Please add to this list as appropriate. Note that some of these terms may be synonyms for the same virus; if there is already an article on that virus under another name, please create redirects from the other name(s) as appropriate.
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Andean potato mottle virus Andean potato mottle virus is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Comoviridae.-External links:**... Aphthovirus Aphthovirus is a viral genus of the family Picornaviridae. Aphthoviruses infect vertebrates, and include the causative agent of foot-and-mouth disease. Foot-and-mouth disease virus is the prototypic member of the genus Aphthovirus... Arbovirus Arbovirus is a term used to refer to a group of viruses that are transmitted by arthropod vectors. The word arbovirus is an acronym . Some arboviruses are able to cause emergent disease.-Transmission:... Arterivirus Arterivirus is a genus of virus, with type species equine arteritis virus. In 1996, the family Arteriviridae was included within the order Nidovirales. Arteriviruses are small, enveloped, animal viruses with an icosahedral core containing a positive-sense RNA genome... Astrovirus Astrovirus is a type of virus that was first discovered in 1975 using electron microscopes following an outbreak of diarrhoea in humans. In addition to humans, astroviruses have now been isolated from numerous mammalian animal species and from avian species such as ducks, chickens, and turkey... |
Australian bat lyssavirus Australian bat lyssavirus is a zoonotic virus closely related to rabies virus. It was first identified in a 5-month old juvenile Black Flying Fox collected near Ballina in northern New South Wales, Australia in 1996 during a national surveillance program for the recently identified Hendra virus... Avian infectious bronchitis virus Avian infectious bronchitis virus is a coronavirus which infects chicken, causing the associated disease, infectious bronchitis Avian infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) is a coronavirus which infects chicken, causing the associated disease, infectious bronchitis Avian infectious bronchitis virus... Avian paramyxovirus -Introduction:Avian paramyxoviruses 1 through 9 are multiple unique serotypes of virus in the genera Avulavirus. Newcastle disease virus is another well characterized species within the same genus and is named APMV-1. Currently, avian paramyxoviruses consist of nine distinct known serotypes and... Avihepadnavirus Avihepadnavirus, is the second genus of the Hepadnaviridae family, the first genus being the Orthohepadnaviruses. The Avihepadnaviruses consist of viruses which exclusively infect birds. The type species of this genus is the duck hepatitis B virus... Avipoxvirus Avipoxvirus is a member of the Poxviridae family. The Poxviridae family is the family of viruses which cause the victim organism to have poxes as a symptom. This pox virus is one that affects birds only. Poxviruses have generally large genomes, and other such examples include smallpox and monkeypox... |
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Bovine coronavirus - Introduction :Bovine coronavirus is as a member of the Coronaviridae family which are enveloped, single-stranded, positive-sense RNA viruses with a club-shaped surface. Infection causes Calf Enteritis and contributes to the Enzootic Pneumonia complex in calves. It can also cause Winter Dysentry... Bovine immunodeficiency virus Bovine immunodeficiency virus is a retrovirus belonging to the lentivirus subfamily. It is similar to Human Immunodeficiency Virus and infects cattle. The cells primarily infected are lymphocytes and monocytes/macrophages.-Discovery:... Bovine leukemia virus Bovine leukemia virus is a bovine virus closely related to HTLV-I, a human tumour virus.BLV is a retrovirus which integrates a DNA intermediate as a provirus into the DNA of B-lymphocytes of blood and milk. It contains an oncogene coding for a protein called Tax. Nevertheless in its natural host... |
Bovine papillomavirus Bovine papillomavirus is a group of DNA viruses of the family Papillomaviridae that are common in cattle. Infection causes warts of the skin and alimentary tract, and more rarely cancers of the alimentary tract and urinary bladder... Bovine parvovirus Bovine parvovirus , also known as Haemadsorbing Enteric Virus, is a member of the parvivirus group, with three significant sub-species: BPV1, 2 and 3. BPV most commonly causes diarrhoea in neonatal calves and respiratory and reproductive disease in adult cattle. The distribution of the virus is... Broad bean stain virus Broad bean stain virus is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Comoviridae.-External links:**... Brome mosaic virus Brome mosaic virus is a small , positive-stranded, icosahedral RNA plant virus belonging to the family Bromoviridae of the alphavirus-like superfamily.... Bwamba Fever Bwamba Fever virus is from the genus Orthobunyavirus and belongs to the order Bunyaviridae. It has a negative sense single stranded RNA genome, and so is classified as a class V virus under the Baltimore classification system. The genome is segmented into three pieces, Large , Medium and Small ,... |
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Cardiovirus Cardiovirus is a genus within the family Picornaviridae. The genus comprises two species: Encephalomyocarditis virus and Theilovirus... Carlavirus Carlavirus, also known as "Carnation latent virus group" is a genus of virus that infects plants. It contains thirty-five described species and twenty-nine tentative species..-Virology:... Carmovirus Carmovirus is a genus of the family Tombusviridae. It is classified under the Baltimore classification system as a group IV virus, having a single-stranded, positive-sense RNA genome. Replication occurs in the cytoplasm. The genome is 3800-4300 base pairs long, although the viron contains a longer... Carrot mottle virus Carrot mottle virus is a pathogenic plant virus.-External links:**... Cauliflower mosaic virus Cauliflower mosaic virus is the type member of the caulimoviruses, one of the six genera in the Caulimoviridae family, pararetroviruses that infect plants... Chandipura virus Chandipura virus is a member of the Rhabdoviridae family that is associated with an encephalitic illness in humans. It was first identified in 1965 after isolation from the blood of two patients from Chandipura village in Maharashtra state, India and has been associated with a number of otherwise... |
Channel catfish virus Channel Catfish virus is a member of the Alloherpesviridae family that causes disease in catfish. Infection with Channel catfish viral disease can cause significant economic loss in channel catfish farms.-Virology:... Closterovirus Closterovirus, also known as beet yellows viral group, is a plant-infecting viral genus included in family Closteroviridae. This genus has a probably worldwide distribution and includes among other viral species the Beet yellows virus and the tentatively assigned Citrus tristeza virus, rather... Coltivirus Coltivirus is a genus of viruses that infects vertebrates, invertebrates, and plants. It includes the causative agent of Colorado tick fever.... |
Coronavirus Coronaviruses are species in the genera of virus belonging to the subfamily Coronavirinae in the family Coronaviridae. Coronaviruses are enveloped viruses with a positive-sense single-stranded RNA genome and a helical symmetry. The genomic size of coronaviruses ranges from approximately 16 to 31... Cowpea Chlorotic Mottle Virus Cowpea Chlorotic Mottle Virus, known by the abbreviation CCMV, is a virus that specifically infects the cowpea plant, or black-eyed pea. The leaves of infected plants develop yellow spots, hence the name "chlorotic". Similar to its "brother" virus, Cowpea mosaic virus , CCMV is produced in high... Cowpea mosaic virus Cowpea mosaic virus is a plant virus of the comovirus group. Infection of a susceptible cowpea leaf results in high virus yields . Its Genome consists of 2 molecules of positive-sense RNA which are separately encapsidated. Both RNA1 and RNA2 have a VPg at the 5'end, and polyadenylation at the... Cypovirus Cypoviruses are a genus of viruses in the Reoviridae family. The virions have an icosahedral structure typical of other reoviruses and are 55-69 nm in diameter. The genome is composed of 10 segments of double-stranded RNA... Cricket paralysis virus Cricket Paralysis Virus was initially discovered in Australian field crickets by Carl Reinganum and his colleagues at the Victorian Plant Research Institute . The paralytic disease spread rapidly through a breeding colony as well as through a laboratory population causing about 95% mortality... |
Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever Crimean–Congo hemorrhagic fever is a widespread tick-borne viral disease, a zoonosis of domestic animals and wild animals, that may affect humans. The pathogenic virus, especially common in East and West Africa, is a member of the Bunyaviridae family of RNA viruses. Clinical disease is rare in... Cucumber yellows virus Cucumber yellows virus is a species of virus that infects plants, specifically the cucumber and melon. It is transmitted by the greenhouse whitefly. The cucumber yellows virus genome was completely sequenced in 2003.-External links:*... Cucumovirus Cucumovirus is a genus of virus that infects plants. It is a member of the Bromoviridae family. It contains three described species, the cucumber mosaic virus, peanut stunt virus and tomato aspermy virus.... Cypovirus Cypoviruses are a genus of viruses in the Reoviridae family. The virions have an icosahedral structure typical of other reoviruses and are 55-69 nm in diameter. The genome is composed of 10 segments of double-stranded RNA... Cytomegalovirus Cytomegalovirus is a viral genus of the viral group known as Herpesviridae or herpesviruses. It is typically abbreviated as CMV: The species that infects humans is commonly known as human CMV or human herpesvirus-5 , and is the most studied of all cytomegaloviruses... Cypovirus Cypoviruses are a genus of viruses in the Reoviridae family. The virions have an icosahedral structure typical of other reoviruses and are 55-69 nm in diameter. The genome is composed of 10 segments of double-stranded RNA... |
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Duvenhage virus Duvenhage virus is a member of the lyssavirus genus which also contains rabies virus. The virus was discovered in 1970 when a South African farmer died of a rabies-like encephalitic illness after being bitten by a bat... |
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Viral encephalitis Viral encephalitis refers to a type of Encephalitis caused by a virus.Encephalitis may be caused by a variety of afflictions.Types include:*Arbovirus encephalitis**La Crosse encephalitis**California encephalitis virus**Japanese Encephalitis**St... Encephalomyocarditis virus Encephalomyocarditis virus is a member of the Picornaviridae family. Infection with the virus causes encephalomyocarditis and reproductive disease in pigs. Although a variety of mammals may host the virus, pigs are classed as the domestic host as they are most easily infected... Enterovirus Enteroviruses are a genus of ssRNA viruses associated with several human and mammalian diseases. Serologic studies have distinguished 66 human enterovirus serotypes on the basis of antibody neutralization tests. Additional antigenic variants have been defined within several of the serotypes on the... Epstein-Barr virus The Epstein–Barr virus , also called human herpesvirus 4 , is a virus of the herpes family and is one of the most common viruses in humans. It is best known as the cause of infectious mononucleosis... |
Everglades virus Everglades virus is an alphavirus included in the Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus complex. The virus circulates among rodents and vector mosquitoes and occasionally infects humans.... |
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Flavivirus Flavivirus is a genus of the family Flaviviridae. This genus includes the West Nile virus, dengue virus, tick-borne encephalitis virus, yellow fever virus, and several other viruses which may cause encephalitis.... Friend virus The Friend virus is a strain of murine leukemia virus identified by Charlotte Friend in 1956. The virus infects adult immunocompetent mice and is a well-established model for studying genetic resistance to infection by an immunosuppressive retrovirus. The Friend virus has been used for both... Furovirus The Furovirus genus consists of rod shaped viruses enclosing bipartite , single-stranded, positive-sense RNA genomes. The type species of the genus is the soil borne wheat mosaic virus or SBWMV. These viruses infect plants of the grass family as well as fungi, infecting fungal vectors of the... |
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Hepatitis D Hepatitis D, also referred to as hepatitis D virus and classified as Hepatitis delta virus, is a disease caused by a small circular enveloped RNA virus. It is one of five known hepatitis viruses: A, B, C, D, and E. HDV is considered to be a subviral satellite because it can propagate only in the... Hepatitis E virus Hepatitis E virus is the infective organism that causes hepatitis E.The viral particles are 27 to 34 nanometers in diameter, are non-enveloped and contain a single-strand of positive-sense RNA that is approximately 7300 bases in length. The virus particle was first visualised in 1983 but was only... Hepatovirus Hepatitis is a genus of viruses belonging to the family Picornaviridae. It encompasses the Hepatitis A with one unclassified virus.-External links:*... Herpes B Virus Herpes Simian B virus is the endemic simplexvirus of macaque monkeys. B virus is an alphaherpesvirus, which consists of a subset of herpesviruses that travel within hosts using the peripheral nerves... Herpes simplex virus Herpes simplex virus 1 and 2 , also known as Human herpes virus 1 and 2 , are two members of the herpes virus family, Herpesviridae, that infect humans. Both HSV-1 and HSV-2 are ubiquitous and contagious... Herpes zoster Herpes zoster , commonly known as shingles and also known as zona, is a viral disease characterized by a painful skin rash with blisters in a limited area on one side of the body, often in a stripe... |
Highlands J virus The Highlands J virus is a zoonotic alphavirus native to North and South America. It maintains a natural reservoir in the songbird population of freshwater swamps and is transmitted by the bite of the female Culiseta melanura mosquito.Though nearly identical in structure and natural cycle to the... Hordeivirus The Hordeivirus refers to a genus of a plant virus with currently no assigned family or order. Virus consists of a non-enveloped, helical, rod-shaped capsid. The viral gene is segmented into 4 parts of positive sense, single stranded RNA of about 9000-17400 nucleotides in length.-External links:*... |
Human Coronavirus NL63 Human Coronavirus NL63 or HCoV-NL63 is a virus that was identified in 2003 in a child with bronchiolitis in the Netherlands.Recent reports from several countries indicate that the virus has spread worldwide... Human foamy virus Human Foamy Virus is a retrovirus and specifically belongs to the genera Spumavirus. The spumaviruses are complex and significantly different from the other six genera or retroviruses in several ways... |
Human parainfluenza viruses Human parainfluenza viruses are a group of four distinct serotypes of enveloped single-stranded RNA viruses belonging to the paramyxovirus family.Parainfluenza viruses can be detected via cell culture, immunofluorescent microscopy, and PCR.... Human papillomavirus Human papillomavirus is a member of the papillomavirus family of viruses that is capable of infecting humans. Like all papillomaviruses, HPVs establish productive infections only in keratinocytes of the skin or mucous membranes... |
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Luteovirus Luteovirus is one of three genera in the luteoviridae family whose primary hosts are plants. The genera also contains the polerovirus and enamovirus. The geographical distribution of luteovirus is widespread, with the virus primarily infecting plants via transmission by aphid vectors. The virus... Lymphocryptovirus Lymphocryptoviruses are a genus of herpesviruses that include the human Epstein-Barr virus as well as viruses that infect both Old World monkeys and New World monkeys... Lyssavirus Lyssavirus is a genus of viruses belonging to the family Rhabdoviridae, in the order Mononegavirales. This group of RNA viruses includes the Rabies virus traditionally associated with the disease.-Structure:Viruses typically have either helical or cubic symmetry... |
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Menangle virus Menangle virus is a virus that infects pigs, humans and bats.-History:Menangle virus was first identified in 1997 after a piggery in Menangle near Sydney, NSW, Australia experienced a high number of stillbirths and deformities during farrowing. Two workers at the piggery came down with an... Mengovirus Mengovirus, also known as Columbia SK virus, mouse Elberfield virus and Encephalomyocarditisvirus , belongs to the genus Cardiovirus which is a member of the Picornaviridae. Its genome is a single stranded positive-sense RNA molecule, making the Mengoviruses a class IV virus under the Baltimore... Merkel cell polyomavirus Merkel cell polyomavirus was first described in January 2008. MCV is one of seven known human tumor viruses. It is suspected to cause the majority of cases of Merkel cell carcinoma, a rare but aggressive form of skin cancer. Approximately 80% of Merkel cell carcinoma tumors have been found to be... Mink enteritis virus Mink enteritis virus is a species of parvovirus that infects mink and causes enteritis. Like all parvoviruses, it is a small , spherical virus, and has a single-stranded DNA genome. The signs and symptoms of enteritis usually appear within 4–7 days after infection... Mokola virus Mokola virus is one of four members of the lyssavirus genus found in Africa, the others being Duvenhage virus, Lagos bat virus and classic rabies virus. Mokola virus was first isolated from shrews from Mokola forest, Nigeria in 1968. It has caused two human deaths in Nigeria, in 1969 and 1971... |
Molluscum contagiosum virus The Molluscum contagiosum virus or MCV is a species of virus in the poxvirus family, which causes the disease Molluscum contagiosum in humans. Virions have a complex structure and is consistent with the structure of the poxvirus family: an envelope, surface membrane, core, and lateral bodies... Monkeypox virus Monkeypox virus is the virus that causes the disease monkeypox in both humans and animals. It was first identified in 1958 as a pathogen of crab-eating macaque monkeys being used as laboratory animals. The crab-eating macaque is often used for neurological experiments... Mononegavirales The order Mononegavirales is the taxonomic home of numerous related viruses. Members of the order that are commonly known are, for instance, Ebola virus, human respiratory syncytial virus, measles virus, mumps virus, Nipah virus, and rabies virus. All of these viruses cause significant disease in... Morbillivirus Morbillivirus is a genus belonging to the Paramyxoviridae family of viruses in the order Mononegavirales. Many members of the genus cause diseases, such as rinderpest and measles, and are highly infectious.- External links :* *... Mouse hepatitis virus Mouse hepatitis virus is a virus of the family Coronaviridae, genus coronavirus.Mouse hepatitis virus is a coronavirus that causes an epidemic murine illness with high mortality, especially among colonies of laboratory mice. Prior to the discovery of SARS-CoV, MHV had been the best-studied... Mouse mammary tumor virus Mouse mammary tumor virus is a milk transmitted retrovirus like the HTL viruses, HI viruses and BLV. It belongs to the genus betaretroviruses. MMTV was formerly known as Bittner virus, and previously the 'milk factor' referring to the extra-chromosomal vertical transmission of murine breast cancer... |
Mumps virus Mumps virus is the causative agent of mumps, a well-known common childhood disease characterised by swelling of the parotid glands and other epithelial tissues, causing high morbidity and in some cases more serious complications such as deafness... Murine leukemia virus The murine leukemia viruses are retroviruses named for their ability to cause cancer in murine hosts. Some MLVs may infect other vertebrates. MLVs include both exogenous and endogenous viruses... |
Muromegalovirus Muromegalovirus is a genus of viruses found in rodents that belong to the betaherpesviridae subfamily of herpesviruses. Murid viruses murid herpesvirus 1 and murid herpesvirus 2 --previously defined as mouse cytomegalovirus and rat cytomegalovirus --belong to this genus.... Murray Valley encephalitis virus Murray Valley encephalitis virus is a zoonotic flavivirus endemic to northern Australia and Papua New Guinea. It is the causal agent of Murray Valley encephalitis and in humans can cause permanent neurological disease or death... Myxoma virus The Myxoma virus causes Myxomatosis in rabbits and was used as a pest control in Australia.- Structure :Virions are enveloped, have a surface membrane with lateral bodies. The envelope contains host-derived lipids and self-synthesized glycolipids. They are brick shaped and are about 250 nm in... |
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Baculovirus The baculoviruses are a family of large rod-shaped viruses that can be divided to two genera: nucleopolyhedroviruses and granuloviruses . While GVs contain only one nucleocapsid per envelope, NPVs contain either single or multiple nucleocapsids per envelope. The enveloped virions are further... |
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Pea enation mosaic virus Pea enation mosaic virus is a plant pathogenic virus.The two RNAs of the disease are now categorised as two separate, mutualistic viruses: PEMV-1 is an Enamovirus, while PEMV-2 is an Umbravirus.-External links:**... Pestivirus Pestivirus is a genus of viruses that belong to the family Flaviviridae. Viruses in the genus Pestivirus infect mammals, including members of the family Bovidae and the family Suidae .-Virus Genetics and Structure:Pestivirus viruses have a single strand of... Phocine distemper virus Phocine distemper virus is a paramyxovirus of the genus morbillivirus that is pathogenic for pinniped species, particularly seals. Clinical signs include laboured breathing, fever and nervous symptoms.... Phytoreovirus Phytoreoviruses are non-turreted reoviruses that are major agricultural pathogens, particularly in Asia. One member of this family, Rice Dwarf Virus , has been extensively studied by electron cryomicroscopy and x-ray crystallography. From these analyses, atomic models of the capsid proteins and a... Picornavirus A picornavirus is a virus belonging to the family Picornaviridae. Picornaviruses are non-enveloped, positive-stranded RNA viruses with an icosahedral capsid. The genome RNA is unusual because it has a protein on the 5' end that is used as a primer for transcription by RNA polymerase... Plant virus Plant viruses are viruses that affect plants. Like all other viruses, plant viruses are obligate intracellular parasites that do not have the molecular machinery to replicate without a host. Plant viruses are pathogenic to higher plants... |
Poliovirus Poliovirus, the causative agent of poliomyelitis, is a human enterovirus and member of the family of Picornaviridae.Poliovirus is composed of an RNA genome and a protein capsid. The genome is a single-stranded positive-sense RNA genome that is about 7500 nucleotides long. The viral particle is... Polydnavirus The Polydnaviruses , are a family of insect viruses that contain two genera: Ichnoviruses and Bracoviruses . The ichnoviruses occur in ichneumonid wasps species and bracoviruses in braconid wasps. The genome of the virus is composed of multiple segments of double-stranded, superhelical DNA... Polyomavirus Polyomavirus is the sole genus of viruses within the family Polyomaviridæ. Murine polyomavirus was the first polyomavirus discovered by Ludwik Gross in 1953. Subsequently, many polyomaviruses have been found to infect birds and mammals... |
Porcine parvovirus Porcine parvovirus causes reproductive failure of swine characterized by embryonic and fetal infection and death, usually in the absence of outward maternal clinical signs... Potato leaf roll virus Potato leafroll virus is a member of the genus Polerovirus and family Luteoviridae. The phloem limited positive sense RNA virus infects potatos and other members of the family Solanaceae. PLRV was first described by Quanjer et. al. in 1916. PLRV is transmitted by aphids, primarily the green... Potato virus Y Potato virus Y is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Potyviridae, and one of the most important plant viruses affecting potato production.... Potexvirus Potexvirus is a genus of plant pathogenic viruses, belonging to the family Alphaflexiviridae and the order Tymovirales. Transmission occurs mechanically, with viruses in this genus causing mosaic and ringspot symptoms.... Potyvirus Potyviruses infect plants and belong to the family Potyviridae. The genus is named after the type virus - Potato Virus Y.The Potyvirus, like the Begomoviruses, have ~30% of the currently known plant viruses and have at least 180 definitive and possible members... |
Provirus A provirus is a virus genome that is integrated into the DNA of a host cell.This state can be a stage of virus replication, or a state that persists over longer periods of time as either inactive viral infections or an endogenous retrovirus. In inactive viral infections the virus will not replicate... Puumala virus Puumala virus is a species of hantavirus. Humans infected with the virus may develop a haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome known as nephropathia epidemica. Puumala virus HFRS is lethal in a small percentage of cases.... |
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Retrovirus A retrovirus is an RNA virus that is duplicated in a host cell using the reverse transcriptase enzyme to produce DNA from its RNA genome. The DNA is then incorporated into the host's genome by an integrase enzyme. The virus thereafter replicates as part of the host cell's DNA... Rhadinovirus Rhadinoviruses are a genus of herpesviruses that include the Human herpesvirus 8 , also known as Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus , which causes Kaposi's sarcoma, primary effusion lymphoma and multicentric Castleman's disease. Other names for the Rhadinovirus genus include Rhadinoviridae... Rhinovirus Human rhinoviruses are the most common viral infective agents in humans and are the predominant cause of the common cold. Rhinovirus infection proliferates in temperatures between 33–35 °C , and this may be why it occurs primarily in the nose... Rhizidiovirus The Rhizidiovirus genus consists of dsDNA viruses that infect stramenopiles.-Virology:The viron is non enveloped, isosahedral with a diameter of 60 nanometers .... Rice dwarf virus Rice dwarf virus is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Reoviridae.-External links:**... |
Rice hoja blanca virus Rice hoja blanca virus is the agent of the most important viral disease of rice in Latin America. The disease is found in Mexico, throughout Central America and the Caribbean region... Rice ragged stunt virus Rice ragged stunt virus is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Reoviridae.Family: ReoviridaeGenus: OryzavirusSpecies: Rice ragged stunt virusAcronym: RRSV... RNA virus An RNA virus is a virus that has RNA as its genetic material. This nucleic acid is usually single-stranded RNA but may be double-stranded RNA... Ross River virus Ross River virus is a small encapsulated single-strand RNA alphavirus endemic to Australia, Papua New Guinea and other islands in the South Pacific. It is responsible for a type of mosquito-borne non-lethal but debilitating tropical disease known as Ross River fever, previously termed "epidemic... Rotavirus Rotavirus is the most common cause of severe diarrhoea among infants and young children, and is one of several viruses that cause infections often called stomach flu, despite having no relation to influenza. It is a genus of double-stranded RNA virus in the family Reoviridae. By the age of five,... Rous sarcoma virus Rous sarcoma virus is a retrovirus and is the first oncovirus to have been described: it causes sarcoma in chickens.As with all retroviruses, it reverse transcribes its RNA genome into cDNA before integration into the host DNA.-History:... Rubella virus Rubella virus is the pathogenic agent of the disease Rubella, and is the cause of congenital rubella syndrome when infection occurs during the first weeks of lunacy.Humans are the only known host of this virus.... |
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Semliki Forest Virus The Semliki Forest virus was first isolated from mosquitoes in the Semliki Forest, Uganda by the Uganda Virus Research Institute in 1942. It is known to cause disease in both animals and man... Sendai virus Sendai virus , also known as murine parainfluenza virus type 1 or hemagglutinating virus of Japan , is a negative sense, single-stranded RNA virus of the Paramyxoviridae family, a group of viruses featuring, notably, the Morbillivirus and Rubulavirus genera... Seoul virus Seoul virus is a species of hantavirus that can cause a form of hemorrhagic fever.... Serrano golden mosaic virus Serrano golden mosaic virus is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Geminiviridae.-External links:**... Shope papilloma virus The cottontail rabbit papilloma virus , or Shope papilloma virus, is a type I virus under the Baltimore scheme, possessing a nonsegmented dsDNA genome. It infects rabbits, causing keratinous carcinomas, typically on or near the animal’s head... Simian foamy virus The simian foamy virus is a spumavirus closely related to the Human Immunodeficiency Virus, HIV, the virus that can lead to AIDS. Its discovery in primates has led to some speculation that HIV may have been spread to the human species in Africa through contact with blood from apes, monkeys, and... Simian hemorrhagic fever virus Simian hemorrhagic fever virus or simian haemorrhagic fever virus or SHFV is a highly pathogenic virus in monkeys. It is a positive-stranded RNA virus classified in the family Arteriviridae.- Hosts :... Simian immunodeficiency virus Simian immunodeficiency virus , also known as African Green Monkey virus and also as Monkey AIDS is a retrovirus able to infect at least 33 species of African primates... Sin Nombre virus The Sin Nombre virus is the prototypical etiologic agent of hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome .... Sindbis virus Sindbis Virus is a member of the Togaviridae family, in the alphavirus subfamily. The virus was first isolated in 1952 in Cairo, Egypt. The virus is transmitted by mosquitoes SINV causes sindbis fever in humans and the symptoms include arthralgia, rash and malaise... Snakehead rhabdovirus Snakehead rhabdovirus is a Novirhabdovirus that affects various species warm water wild and pond-cultured fish in Southeast Asia, including snakehead species for which it is named.-Isolation:... Sobemovirus The Sobemovirus is a genus of a virus with no family. Virion capsids are non-enveloped, round and isometric, with a diameter of 25-33 nm. The genome is a single piece of linear, positive-sense, single-stranded RNA, 4100-5700 nucleotides in length..... |
Sorghum mosaic virus Sorghum mosaic virus is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Potyviridae.-External links:**... Sowbane mosaic virus Sowbane mosaic virus is a pathogenic plant virus.-External links:**... Sowthistle yellow vein virus Sowthistle yellow vein virus is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Rhabdoviridae.-External links:**... Soybean chlorotic mottle virus Soybean chlorotic mottle virus is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Caulimoviridae.-External links:**... Soybean crinkle leaf virus Soybean crinkle leaf virus is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Geminiviridae.-External links:**... Soybean dwarf virus Soybean dwarf virus is a pathogenic plant virus.-External links:**... Soybean mosaic virus Soybean mosaic virus is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Potyviridae.Symptoms:Soybean mosaic causes stunting of plants and crinkled and mottling of leaves.Infected plants range from no symptoms to severely mottled and deformed.... Spodoptera littoralis Spodoptera littoralis, the African Cotton Leafworm or Egyptian Cotton Leafworm—also known as the Mediterranean Brocade in the UK—is a noctuid moth found widely in Africa and Mediterranean Europe. It has been recorded at least six times in the UK, either an immigrant or as an accidental import. It... Spumavirus A spumavirus or foamyvirus is a genus of the retroviridae family. Spumaviruses are exogenous viruses that have specific morphology with prominent surface spikes. The virions contain significant amounts of double-stranded full-length DNA, and assembly is rather unusual in these viruses... |
Strawberry crinkle virus Strawberry crinkle virus is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Rhabdoviridae.-External links:**... Strawberry latent ringspot virus Strawberry latent ringspot virus is a plant pathogenic virus in an Unassigned family. Its entry in the ICTV database indicates this virus is a Sadwavirus but current literature indicates that it may be a Cheravirus.-References:... Strawberry vein banding virus Strawberry vein banding virus is a plant pathogenic virus and a member of the family Caulimoviridae.Strawberry vein banding virus was first described by Frazier after differential aphid transmission to susceptible wild strawberries... Sugarcane mosaic virus Sugarcane mosaic virus is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Potyviridae.-External links:**... Sweet potato feathery mottle virus Sweet potato feathery mottle virus is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Potyviridae.-External links:**... Sweet potato latent virus Sweet potato latent virus is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Potyviridae.-References:1. Moyer, James W. and Luis F. Salazar. Viruses and Viruslike Diseases of Sweet Potato.. Plant Disease Vol.73 No. 6 June 1989... Sweet potato mild mottle virus Sweet potato mild mottle virus is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Potyviridae.-External links:**... Sweet potato yellow dwarf virus Sweet potato yellow dwarf virus is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Potyviridae.-External links:**... |
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Theiler's encephalomyelitis virus Theiler's Murine Encephalomyelitis Virus is a single stranded RNA murine cardiovirus from the family Picornaviridae that has been used as a mouse model for studying virally induced paralysis as well as encephalomyelitis comparable to Multiple sclerosis... Tioman virus Tioman virus is a paramyxovirus first isolated from the urine of island fruit bats on Tioman Island, Malaysia in 2000... Titi monkey adenovirus Titi monkey adenovirus is an adenovirus first identified in a Titi monkey, which subsequently passed to 3 humans. It is a large DNA based virus which can cause death in monkeys, and respiratory illness has been recorded in humans... Tobacco etch virus Tobacco etch virus is a plant pathogenic virus in the genus Potyvirus and the virus family Potyviridae. Like other members of the Potyvirus genus, TEV is a monopartite strand of positive-sense, single-stranded RNA surrounded by a capsid made for a single viral encoded protein. The virus is a... Tobacco leaf curl virus Tobacco leaf curl virus is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Geminiviridae.-External links:**... Tobacco mosaic virus Tobacco mosaic virus is a positive-sense single stranded RNA virus that infects plants, especially tobacco and other members of the family Solanaceae. The infection causes characteristic patterns on the leaves . TMV was the first virus to be discovered... |
Tobacco necrosis virus Tobacco necrosis virus is a plant virus of the family Tombusviridae.It is transmitted by the fungus Olpidium brassicae.-General Properties of TNV:TNV has wide host range . The virus can be isolated from roots of... Tobacco rattle virus Tobacco rattle virus is a plant pathogenic virus.-External links:**... Tobacco ringspot virus Tobacco ringspot virus is a plant pathogenic virus in the plant virus family Comoviridae. It is the type species of the Comoviridae Genus Nepovirus. Nepoviruses are be transmitted between plants by nematodes... Tobacco streak virus Tobacco streak virus is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Bromoviridae.-External links:**- Affected organisms :* Asparagus, Asparagus officinalis* Faba bean, Vicia faba* Cotton, Gossypium herbaceum* Sun flower* Groundnut... Tobacco stunt virus Tobacco stunt virus is a plant pathogenic virus.-External links:**... Tobacco vein mottling virus Tobacco vein mottling virus is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Potyviridae.-External links:**... Tobamovirus The genus Tobamovirus contains viruses with a positive sense RNA genome that infect plants. The most common tobamovirus is probably tobacco mosaic virus, which infects tobacco and other plants including potato, tomato, and squash. The name Tobamovirus comes from the host and symptoms: Toba for... Tobravirus The Tobravirus is a genus of a virus of the family Virgaviridae. Virion capsids are non-enveloped, helical and rod-shaped, with a length of 180-215 nm and a width of 20.5-23.1 nm. The genome is two pieces of linear, positive-sense, single-stranded RNA, 8600-11300 nucleotides in... Tomato aspermy virus Tomato aspermy virus is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Bromoviridae.-External links:**... Tomato black ring virus Tomato black ring virus is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Comoviridae.-External links:**... Tomato bushy stunt virus Tomato bushy stunt virus is a tombusvirus first reported in tomatoes in 1935. Depending upon the host, TBSV causes stunting of growth, leaf mottling, and deformed or absent fruit. The virus is transmitted manually through the use of contaminated cutting tools... Tomato mosaic virus Tomato mosaic virus is a plant pathogenic virus. It is found worldwide and affects tomatoes and many other plants.-Symptoms:The foliage of affected tomato plants shows mottling, with alternating yellowish and darker green areas, the latter often appearing thicker and raised giving a blister-like... Tomato ringspot virus Tomato ringspot virus is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Comoviridae. It affects tomatoes.-External links:* Descriptions of Plant Viruses: **... |
Tombusvirus The genus Tombusvirus are part of the family Tombusviridae and are members of group IV of the Baltimore classification of viruses. The genomes consist of positive sense single-stranded RNA with a genome size of 4800 nucleotides. The virions are non-enveloped with a diameter of 30 nm and have... Torovirus Torovirus is a genus of viruses within the Coronaviridae family that primarily infect vertebrates. They cause gastroenteritis in mammals, including humans but rarely. Torovirus particles share characteristics with other members of the coronavirus family; they are round, pleomorphic, enveloped... Toscana virus Toscana virus is an arthropod-borne virus arbovirus that was first isolated from the sandfly, Phlebotomus perniciosus collected from the Grosseto province of the Tuscany region in Italy, although has subsequently been identified isolated from P. perfiliewi, and found across a wider Mediterranean... Tospovirus The Tospoviruses are a genus of negative RNA virus found within the family Bunyaviridae. They are the sole group of plant infecting viruses in this family, as all other described members of the Bunyaviridae infect animals. The genus takes its name from the discovery of Tomato spotted wilt virus ... |
Transfusion Transmitted Virus TT virus was the first member of the new family Anelloviridae to be discovered.- Initial discovery :TTV, for Transfusion Transmitted Virus or Torque teno virus was first reported in a Japanese patient in 1997 by the research scientist T. Nishizawa... (TT Virus) Tulare apple mosaic virus Tulare apple mosaic virus is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Bromoviridae.-External links:**... Tulip breaking virus The Tulip breaking virus, also known as the "Tulip break virus", "Tulip breaking potyvirus", "Lily streak virus", "Tulip mosaic virus", "Lily mottle virus", "Lily mosaic virus", or simply "TBV" is a plant virus that is most famous for its infection of tulips... Turkey coronavirus Also known as: Turkey Enteritis Virus − Bluecomb Disease Virus − Turkey Coronaviral Enteritis-Introduction:Turkey Coronaviruses are members of the Coronaviridae family and infect turkey, especially poults, leading to gastrointestinal disease... Turnip crinkle virus Turnip crinkle virus is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Tombusviridae.TCV is a small , icosohedral, single stranded, positive sense RNA virus . It has been shown to infect various types of plant species including the common plant model, Arabidopsis thaliana, and is currently being studied... Turnip mosaic virus Turnip mosaic virus is a Potyvirus of the family Potyviridae that causes diseases in cruciferous plants, among others. The virus is usually spread by 40-50 species of aphids in a non-persistent manner. Infected plants, especially the natural hosts, show symptoms such as chlorotic local lesions,... Turnip yellow mosaic virus Turnip yellow mosaic virus is a tymovirus of the family Tymoviridae. These viruses infect dicotyledons while few of them attack monocotyledons also. They cause bright yellow mosaic disease showing vein clearing & molting of plant tissues.-External links:... |
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Visna virus Visna virus from the genus lentivirinae and subfamily Orthoretrovirinae, is a "prototype" retrovirus that causes encephalitis and chronic pneumonitis in sheep. It is known as visna when found in the brain, and maedi when infecting the lungs... |
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Wheat dwarf virus Wheat dwarf virus is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Geminiviridae. The two isolates of this virus effect both what and barley. It is spread by the leafhopper Psammotettix alienus.-External links:**... Wheat spindle streak mosaic virus Wheat spindle streak mosaic virus is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Potyviridae.-External links:**... Wheat streak mosaic virus Wheat streak mosaic virus is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Potyviridae.-External links:**... Wheat yellow leaf virus Wheat yellow leaf virus is a wheat , barley , rye , and oat pathogenic virus of the family Closteroviridae. WYLV virions are 1600-1850 nm in length and 10 nm in diameter. The virus, like other members of its genus, is transmitted by aphids... Wheat yellow mosaic virus Wheat yellow mosaic virus is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Potyviridae.-External links:**... White clover mosaic virus White clover mosaic virus is a plant pathogenic virus in the genus Potexvirus and the family Flexiviridae. WClMV is a filamentous, flexuous rod, 480 nm in length and 13 nm wide.... Wild potato mosaic virus Wild potato mosaic virus is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Potyviridae.-External links:**... Wineberry latent virus Wineberry latent virus is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Flexiviridae.-External links:**... Winter wheat Russian mosaic virus Winter wheat Russian mosaic virus is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Rhabdoviridae.-External links:**... |
Wound tumor virus Wound tumor virus is an invertebrate and plant virus found in the United States of America belonging to the genus Phytoreoviridae and the family Reoviridae. The virus is a Type III virus under the Baltimore classification system; that is it has a double-stranded RNA genome. This genome is... |
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External links
- International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses - Index of Viruses
- Alphabetical List of Virus Names (Taxa)
- List of viruses by family and group
- Viruses by genome type
See also
- VirusVirusA virus is a small infectious agent that can replicate only inside the living cells of organisms. Viruses infect all types of organisms, from animals and plants to bacteria and archaea...
- VirologyVirologyVirology is the study of viruses and virus-like agents: their structure, classification and evolution, their ways to infect and exploit cells for virus reproduction, the diseases they cause, the techniques to isolate and culture them, and their use in research and therapy...
- Virus classificationVirus classificationVirus classification is the process of naming viruses and placing them into a taxonomic system. Similar to the classification systems used for cellular organisms, virus classification is the subject of ongoing debate and proposals. This is mainly due to the pseudo-living nature of viruses, which...
- List of latent human viral infections
- Table of clinically important virusesTable of clinically important virusesThese are tables of the clinically most important viruses. A vast number of viruses cause infectious diseases, but these are the major ones.-Structural characteristics:...
- WikiSpecies:Virus
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Viruses