Bunyamwera orthobunyavirus

Bunyamwera orthobunyavirus
Virus classification Edit this classification
(unranked): Virus
Realm: Riboviria
Kingdom: Orthornavirae
Phylum: Negarnaviricota
Class: Ellioviricetes
Order: Bunyavirales
Family: Peribunyaviridae
Genus: Orthobunyavirus
Species:
Bunyamwera orthobunyavirus
Isolates[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Bunyamwera virus

Bunyamwera orthobunyavirus (BUNV) is a negative-sense, single-stranded enveloped RNA virus. It is assigned to the Orthobunyavirus genus, in the Bunyavirales order.

Bunyamwera orthobunyavirus can infect both humans and Aedes aegypti (yellow fever mosquito).[3]

It is named for Bunyamwera, a town in western Uganda, where it was isolated in 1943. Reassortant viruses derived from Bunyamwera orthobunyavirus, such as Ngari virus, have been associated with large outbreaks of viral haemorrhagic fever in Kenya and Somalia.[4][5][6]

  1. ^ "ICTV 9th Report (2011) Bunyaviridae" (html). International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV). Retrieved 31 January 2019. Bunya: from Bunyamwera, place in Uganda, where type virus was isolated.
  2. ^ "ICTV Taxonomy history: Bunyamwera orthobunyavirus" (html). International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV). Retrieved 31 January 2019.
  3. ^ "Bunyamwera virus (BUNV)".
  4. ^ Gerrard SR, Li L, Barrett AD, Nichol ST (2004). "Ngari virus is a Bunyamwera virus reassortant that can be associated with large outbreaks of hemorrhagic fever in Africa". J Virol. 78 (16): 8922–6. doi:10.1128/JVI.78.16.8922-8926.2004. PMC 479050. PMID 15280501.
  5. ^ Odhiambo C, Venter M, Limbaso K, Swanepoel R, Sang R (2014). "Genome sequence analysis of in vitro and in vivo phenotypes of Bunyamwera and Ngari virus isolates from northern Kenya". PLOS ONE. 9 (8): e105446. Bibcode:2014PLoSO...9j5446O. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0105446. PMC 4143288. PMID 25153316.
  6. ^ Briese, T.; Bird, B.; Kapoor, V.; Nichol, S. T.; Lipkin, W. I. (12 May 2006). "Batai and Ngari Viruses: M Segment Reassortment and Association with Severe Febrile Disease Outbreaks in East Africa". Journal of Virology. 80 (11): 5627–5630. doi:10.1128/JVI.02448-05. PMC 1472162. PMID 16699043.