ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Filoviridae

Jens H Kuhn; Gaya K Amarasinghe; Christopher F Basler; Sina Bavari; Alexander Bukreyev; Kartik Chandran; Ian Crozier; Olga Dolnik; John M Dye; Pierre B H Formenty; Anthony Griffiths; Roger Hewson; Gary P Kobinger; Eric M Leroy; Elke Mühlberger; Sergey V Netesov Нетёсов Сергей Викторович; Gustavo Palacios; Bernadett Pályi; Janusz T Pawęska; Sophie J Smither; Ayato Takada 高田礼人; Jonathan S Towner; Victoria Wahl; Ictv Report Consortium

doi:10.1099/jgv.0.001252

ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Filoviridae

J Gen Virol. 2019 Jun;100(6):911-912. doi: 10.1099/jgv.0.001252. Epub 2019 Apr 25.

Authors

Jens H Kuhn¹, Gaya K Amarasinghe², Christopher F Basler³, Sina Bavari⁴, Alexander Bukreyev⁵, Kartik Chandran⁶, Ian Crozier⁷, Olga Dolnik⁸, John M Dye⁴, Pierre B H Formenty⁹, Anthony Griffiths¹⁰, Roger Hewson¹¹, Gary P Kobinger¹², Eric M Leroy¹³, Elke Mühlberger¹⁰, Sergey V Netesov Нетёсов Сергей Викторович¹⁴, Gustavo Palacios⁴, Bernadett Pályi¹⁵, Janusz T Pawęska¹⁶, Sophie J Smither¹⁷, Ayato Takada 高田礼人¹⁸, Jonathan S Towner¹⁹, Victoria Wahl²⁰, Ictv Report Consortium

Affiliations

¹ 1NIH/NIAID Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick, (IRF-Frederick), Frederick, MD 21702, USA.
² 2Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.
³ 3Center for Microbial Pathogenesis, Georgia State University, Atlanta GA 30303, USA.
⁴ 4United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Frederick, MD 21702, USA.
⁵ 5The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555, USA.
⁶ 6Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA.
⁷ 7Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick, Clinical Monitoring Research Program Directorate, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research supported by the National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD 21702, USA.
⁸ 8Institute of Virology, Philipps University Marburg, 35043 Marburg, Germany.
⁹ 9World Health Organization, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland.
¹⁰ 10Department of Microbiology and National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA.
¹¹ 11Public Health England, Porton Down, Wiltshire, SP4 0JG Salisbury, UK.
¹² 12Université Laval, Québec City, QC G1V 0A6, Canada.
¹³ 13Infectious Diseases and Vectors Unit, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, 911 Av Agropolis, 34394 Montpellier, France.
¹⁴ 14Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Novosibirsk Oblast, 630090, Russia.
¹⁵ 15National Biosafety Laboratory, National Public Health Center, Budapest, Hungary.
¹⁶ 16National Institute for Communicable Diseases of the National Health Laboratory Service, 2131 Sandringham-Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa.
¹⁷ 17Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, Porton Down, Salisbury, Wiltshire SP4 0JQ, UK.
¹⁸ 18Division of Global Epidemiology, Hokkaido University Research Center for Zoonosis Control, 001-0020 Sapporo, Japan.
¹⁹ 19Viral Special Pathogens Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA.
²⁰ 20National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center, Frederick, MD 21702, USA.

Abstract

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.

Keywords: Filoviridae; ICTV Report; ebolavirus; filovirus; marburgvirus; taxonomy.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
Review

MeSH terms

Animals
Filoviridae / classification*
Filoviridae / genetics
Genome, Viral / genetics
Humans
RNA, Viral / genetics

Substances

RNA, Viral

Abstract

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