Asama orthohantavirus | |
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Virus classification | |
(unranked): | Virus |
Realm: | Riboviria |
Kingdom: | Orthornavirae |
Phylum: | Negarnaviricota |
Class: | Ellioviricetes |
Order: | Bunyavirales |
Family: | Hantaviridae |
Genus: | Orthohantavirus |
Species: | Asama orthohantavirus
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Asama orthohantavirus (ASAV), also called Asama virus, is a single-stranded, enveloped, segmented negative-sense RNA hantavirus.[1] The hantavirus was isolated in Japan from Japanese shrew mole.[1] Hantaviruses harbored by shrews are genetically closer to ASAV than to hantaviruses harbored by rodents.[1] Host-switching may be evident in the future due to the viruses closeness to soricine shrew-borne hantaviruses.[1] The detection of the ASAV was the first hantavirus found to be hosted by members of the family Talpidae, which includes shrew moles.[2] Thoughts on hantavirus evolutionary history has expanded due to the discovery of ASAV.[1]