Lyssavirus

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? Lyssavirus
Virus classification
Group: Group V ((-)ssRNA) Order: Mononegavirales Family: Rhabdoviridae Genus: Lyssavirus
Species
Aravan virus Australian bat lyssavirus Duvenhage virus European bat lyssavirus 1 European bat lyssavirus 2 Irkut virus Khujand virus Lagos bat virus Mokola virus Rabies virus West Caucasian bat virus

Lyssavirus (from a Greek word meaning frenzy) is a genus of viruses belonging to the family Rhabdoviridae, in the order Mononegavirales.

This group of RNA viruses includes the Rabies virus traditionally associated with the disease.

Viruses typically have either helical or cubic symmetry. Lyssaviruses have helical symmetry, so their infectious particles are approximately cylindrical in shape. This is typical of plant-infecting viruses. Human-infecting viruses more commonly have cubic symmetry and take shapes approximating regular polyhedra.

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• Arai YT, Kuzmin IV, Kameoka Y, Botvinkin AD. New lyssavirus genotype from the lesser mouse-eared bat (Myotis blythi), Kyrghyzstan. Emerg Infect Dis 2003 Mar.
• Botvinkin AD, Poleschuk EM, Kuzmin IV, Borisoa TI, Gazaryan SV, Yager P, et al. Novel lyssaviruses isolated from bats in Russia. Emerg Infect Dis 2003 Dec.