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Published on: March 2, 2016
ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Arenaviridae 2023
Sheli R Radoshitzky1, Michael J Buchmeier2, Rémi N Charrel3
1Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD 20903, USA.
Abstract:
Arenaviridae is a family for ambisense RNA viruses with genomes of about 10.5 kb that infect mammals, snakes, and fish. The arenavirid genome consists of two or three single-stranded RNA segments and encodes a nucleoprotein (NP), a glycoprotein (GP) and a large (L) protein containing RNA-directed RNA polymerase (RdRP) domains; some arenavirids encode a zinc-binding protein (Z). This is a summary of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) report on the family Arenaviridae, which is available at www.ictv.global/report/arenaviridae.
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