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ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Filoviridae

2019; Microbiology Society; Volume: 100; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1099/jgv.0.001252

1465-2099

Jens H. Kuhn, Gaya K. Amarasinghe, Christopher F. Basler, Sina Bavari, Alexander Bukreyev, Kartik Chandran, Ian Crozier, Olga Dolnik, John M. Dye, Pierre Formenty, Anthony Griffiths, Roger Hewson, Gary Kobinger, Eric M. Leroy, Elke Mühlberger, Netesov Sv, Gustavo Palacios, Bernadett Pályi, Janusz T. Pawęska, Sophie J. Smither, Ayato Takada, Jonathan S. Towner, Victoria Wahl‐Jensen,

Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology

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.