Arteriviridae | |
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Arterivirus virion | |
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Equine artevirus genome | |
Virus classification
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(unranked): | Virus |
Realm: | Riboviria |
Kingdom: | Orthornavirae |
Phylum: | Pisuviricota |
Class: | Pisoniviricetes |
Order: | Nidovirales |
Suborder: | Arnidovirineae |
Family: | Arteriviridae |
Arteriviridae is a family of enveloped, positive-strand RNA viruses in the order Nidovirales which infect vertebrates. [1] [2] Host organisms include equids, pigs, Possums, nonhuman primates, and rodents. The family includes, for example, equine arteritis virus in horses which causes mild-to-severe respiratory disease and reproductive failure, porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus type 1 and type 2 in pigs which causes a similar disease, simian hemorrhagic fever virus which causes a highly lethal fever, lactate dehydrogenase–elevating virus which affects mice, and wobbly possum disease virus. [3] [4]
Member viruses are enveloped, spherical, and 45–60 nm in diameter. [5]
Arteriviruses have a positive-sense single-stranded RNA genome. [5]
The family Arteriviridae contains the subfamilies: [6]