Deltapapillomavirus | |
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Virus classification | |
(unranked): | Virus |
Realm: | Monodnaviria |
Kingdom: | Shotokuvirae |
Phylum: | Cossaviricota |
Class: | Papovaviricetes |
Order: | Zurhausenvirales |
Family: | Papillomaviridae |
Genus: | Deltapapillomavirus |
Species | |
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Deltapapillomavirus is a genus of viruses in the family Papillomaviridae.[1] Ruminants serve as natural hosts. There are seven species in this genus. Diseases associated with this genus include: warts (papillomas and fibropapillomas) of the skin and alimentary tract (rarely cancers of the alimentary tract and urinary bladder); possibly responsible for the skin tumour equine sarcoid in horses and donkeys.[2][3]