Biology:Tanganya virus

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Tanganya virus
Virus classification e
(unranked): Virus
Realm: Riboviria
Kingdom: Orthornavirae
Phylum: Negarnaviricota
Class: Ellioviricetes
Order: Bunyavirales
Family: Hantaviridae
Genus: Orthohantavirus (?)
Virus:
Tanganya virus

Tanganya virus (TGNV) is an enveloped, single-stranded, negative-sense RNA virus, possibly of the genus orthohantavirus in the Bunyavirales order.[1] It is the second indigenous Murinae-associated African hantavirus to be discovered. It has a low sequence similarity to other hantaviruses and serologically distinct from other hantaviruses.[2] Its host is Crocidura theresae.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "ICTV 9th Report (2011) Bunyaviridae" (in en). https://talk.ictvonline.org/ictv-reports/ictv_9th_report/negative-sense-rna-viruses-2011/w/negrna_viruses/205/bunyaviridae. Retrieved 4 March 2019. "List of other related viruses which may be members of the genus Hantavirus but have not been approved as species Tanganya virus {Crocidura theresae} (TGNV)" 
  2. Boris Klempa, Elisabeth Fichet-Calvet, Emilie Lecompte, S. et al. Novel Hantavirus Sequences in Shrew, Guinea. Emerg Infect Dis. 2007 March; 13(3): 520–522.

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q16978196 entry