Thottopalayam thottimvirus

Thottopalayam thottimvirus
Virus classification Edit this classification
(unranked): Virus
Realm: Riboviria
Kingdom: Orthornavirae
Phylum: Negarnaviricota
Class: Ellioviricetes
Order: Bunyavirales
Family: Hantaviridae
Genus: Thottimvirus
Species:
Thottopalayam thottimvirus
Synonyms
  • Thottapalayam hantavirus
  • Thottapalayam virus[1]

Thottopalayam thottimvirus, formerly Thottapalayam virus, (TMPV) is single-stranded, enveloped, negative-sense RNA virus species of the genus Thottimvirus in the Bunyavirales order. It is the first hantavirus to be isolated from a shrew.[citation needed] It was discovered in India in 1964.[2][3]

  1. ^ Briese, Thomas (15 June 2015). "Implementation of non-Latinized binomial species names in the family Bunyaviridae" (PDF). International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV). Retrieved 4 March 2019.
  2. ^ Carey DE, Reuben R, Panicker KN, Shope RE, Myers RM. Thottapalayam virus: a presumptive arbovirus isolated from a shrew in India. Indian J Med Res. 1971;59:1758–60.
  3. ^ Serge Morand, François Beaudeau, Jacques Cabaret.New Frontiers of Molecular Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases. Springer, Sep 8, 2011. pp. 198–199.