| Nova mobatvirus | |
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Virus classification 
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| (unranked): | Virus |
| Realm: | Riboviria |
| Kingdom: | Orthornavirae |
| Phylum: | Negarnaviricota |
| Class: | Ellioviricetes |
| Order: | Bunyavirales |
| Family: | Hantaviridae |
| Genus: | Mobatvirus |
| Species: | Nova mobatvirus
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Nova virus is a single-stranded, negative-sense, enveloped RNA virus with a trisegmented genome. It belongs to one of the most divergent lineages of the hantavirus group, which consists of zoonotic viruses belonging to the family Bunyaviridae. As of now, no human cases of infection have been reported.[1]
- ^ Kang HJ, Bennett SN, Sumibcay L, Arai S, Hope AG, Mocz G, et al. (July 2009). "Evolutionary insights from a genetically divergent hantavirus harbored by the European common mole (Talpa europaea)". PLOS ONE. 4 (7): e6149. Bibcode:2009PLoSO...4.6149K. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0006149. PMC 2702001. PMID 19582155.