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Spondweni virus (SPOV or SPONV) is an arbovirus, or arthropod-borne virus, which is a member of the family Flaviviridae and the genus Flavivirus. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is part of the Spondweni serogroup which consists of the Sponweni virus and the Zika virus (ZIKV).
Faustovirus is a genus of giant virus which infects amoebae associated with humans. The virus was first isolated in 2015 [2] and shown to be around 0.2 micrometers in diameter with a double stranded DNA genome of 466 kilobases predicted to encode 451 proteins.
Orthopoxvirus is a genus of viruses in the family Poxviridae and subfamily Chordopoxvirinae.Vertebrates, including mammals and humans, and arthropods serve as natural hosts. . There are 12 species in this gen
Canine distemper virus is closely related to measles virus and is the most important viral disease of dogs. The disease (which was first described in 1760, by Edward Jenner, the pioneer of smallpox vaccination, is highly contagious, but is well controlled by vaccination. In the 1990s, thousands of African lions died from the infection, which ...
The first animal virus discovered (1897) was the foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV). It is the prototypic member of the genus Aphthovirus in the Picornaviridae family. [5] The plaque assay was developed using poliovirus; the discovery of viral replication in culture was also with poliovirus in 1949.
It binds to molecules on the surface of cells called receptors and drives the entry of the virus into the cell. [43] VP4 has to be modified by the protease enzyme trypsin, which is found in the gut, into VP5* and VP8* before the virus is infectious. [44] VP4 determines how virulent the virus is and it determines the P-type of the virus. [45]
A robovirus is a zoonotic virus that is transmitted by a rodent vector (i.e., rodent borne). [1] [2] Roboviruses mainly belong to the virus families Arenaviridae and Hantaviridae. [3] [4] Like arbovirus (arthropod borne) and tibovirus (tick borne) the name refers to its method of transmission, known as its vector.
Medusavirus is a nucleocytoplasmic large DNA virus first isolated from a Japanese hot spring in 2019. [1] It notably encodes all five types of histones — H1, H2A, H2B, H3, and H4 — which are involved in DNA packaging in eukaryotes, raising the possibility that they may have been involved in the origin of eukaryotes. [1]