ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Pneumoviridae.

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The family Pneumoviridae comprises large enveloped negative-sense RNA viruses. This taxon was formerly a subfamily within the Paramyxoviridae, but was reclassified in 2016 as a family with two genera, Orthopneumovirus and Metapneumovirus. Pneumoviruses infect a range of mammalian species, while some members of the Metapneumovirus genus may also infect birds. Some viruses are specific and pathogenic for humans, such as human respiratory syncytial virus and human metapneumovirus. There are no known vectors for pneumoviruses and transmission is thought to be primarily by aerosol droplets and contact. This is a summary of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) Report on the taxonomy of the Pneumoviridae, which is available at www.ictv.global/report/pneumoviridae.

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Journal ID (iso-abbrev): J. Gen. Virol.

Title: The Journal of general virology

Publisher: Microbiology Society

ISSN (Electronic): 1465-2099

ISSN (Print): 0022-1317

Publication date (Electronic): Dec 2017

Volume: 98

Issue: 12

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[1 ] 1Centre for Experimental Medicine, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK.

[2 ] 2RNA Viruses Section, Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.

[3 ] 3School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.

[4 ] 4Department of Viroscience, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

[5 ] 5US Geological Survey Western Fisheries Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA.

[6 ] 6Department of Molecular Biosciences, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.

[7 ] 7Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.

[8 ] 8Institute of Virology, Philipps University Marburg, Marburg, Germany.

[9 ] 9National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA.

[10 ] 10Program in Emerging Infectious Diseases, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore, Singapore.

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DOI: 10.1099/jgv.0.000959

PMC ID: 5775899

PubMed ID: 29087278

SO-VID: a0c19db7-be2a-4e22-8b74-9b87f66e8318

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Keywords: Pneumoviridae,human metapneumovirus,human respiratory syncytial virus,taxonomy,ICTV

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Keywords: Pneumoviridae, human metapneumovirus, human respiratory syncytial virus, taxonomy, ICTV

ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Pneumoviridae.

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