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Abstract
Members of the family Nairoviridae produce enveloped virions with three single-stranded RNA segments comprising 17.1 to 22.8 kb in total. These viruses are maintained in arthropods and transmitted by ticks to mammals or birds. Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus is tick-borne and is endemic in most of Asia, Africa, Southern and Eastern Europe whereas Nairobi sheep disease virus, which is also tick-borne, causes lethal haemorrhagic gastroenteritis in small ruminants in Africa and India. This is a summary of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) Report on the family Nairoviridae, which is available at ictv.global/report/nairoviridae.
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Keyword(s):
Bunyavirales
,
bunyavirus
,
ICTV Report
,
Nairoviridae
,
nairovirus
,
orthonairovirus
,
shaspivirus
,
striwavirus
and
taxonomy
Funding
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National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
(Award HHSN272201800013C)
- Principle Award Recipient: Jens H. Kuhn
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Wellcome Trust
(Award WT108418AIA)
- Principle Award Recipient: ICTV Consortium
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