Tanganya virus

Tanganya virus
Virus classification Edit this classification
(unranked): Virus
Realm: Riboviria
Kingdom: Orthornavirae
Phylum: Negarnaviricota
Class: Ellioviricetes
Order: Bunyavirales
Family: Hantaviridae
Genus: Orthohantavirus (?)
Virus:
Tanganya virus

Tanganya virus (TGNV) is an enveloped, single-stranded, negative-sense RNA virus, possibly of the genus orthohantavirus in the Bunyavirales order.[1] It is the second indigenous Murinae-associated African hantavirus to be discovered. It has a low sequence similarity to other hantaviruses and serologically distinct from other hantaviruses.[2] Its host is Crocidura theresae.[1]

  1. ^ a b "ICTV 9th Report (2011) Bunyaviridae". International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV). Retrieved 4 March 2019. List of other related viruses which may be members of the genus Hantavirus but have not been approved as species Tanganya virus {Crocidura theresae} (TGNV)
  2. ^ Boris Klempa, Elisabeth Fichet-Calvet, Emilie Lecompte, S. et al. Novel Hantavirus Sequences in Shrew, Guinea. Emerg Infect Dis. 2007 March; 13(3): 520–522.