Bunyaviridae

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.

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Bunnell test,

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Bunyaviridae

n a grouping of enveloped, helix-shaped ribonucleic acid (RNA) viruses, implicated in certain forms of encephalitis and sandfly fever.

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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.

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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 cause serious disease–eg, hemorrhagic fever