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Bunyaviridae /Bun·ya·vi·ri·dae/ (bun″yah-vir´ĭ-de) the bunyaviruses: a family of RNA viruses whose genome comprises three molecules of circular negative-sense single-stranded RNA; it includes the genera Bunyavirus, Hantavirus, Nairovirus, and Phlebovirus. Bunnell test, n.pr See test, Paul-Bunnell. Bunyaviridae n a grouping of enveloped, helix-shaped ribonucleic acid (RNA) viruses, implicated in certain forms of encephalitis and sandfly fever. Bunyaviridae a family of viruses comprising five genera: Bunyavirus, which includes Akabane and California encephalitis, Phlebovirus, which includes Rift Valley fever virus, Nairovirus, which includes Nairobi sheep disease and crimean-congo hemorrhagic fever viruses, Uukuvirus, which does not contain pathogenic viruses, and Hantavirus, which infects rodents and causes hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome in humans. Bunyaviridae Virology A family of single-stranded RNA enveloped arboviruses composed of > 200 viruses, including genera Bunyavirus, Hantavirus, Phlebovirus, Nairovirus, Uukuvirus; they infect vertebrates and arthropods and some genera
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Historical, epidemiological and ecological aspects of arbovirus in Argentina: Flaviviridae, Bunyaviridae and Rhabdoviridae. It is an RNA virus that the taxonomic (name calling) virologists included in the Bunyaviridae family. Hantaviruses (family Bunyaviridae, genus Hantavirus) are rodentborne, zoonotic, lipid-enveloped RNA viruses. |
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