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Virus classification 
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| (unranked): | Virus |
| Realm: | Riboviria |
| Kingdom: | Orthornavirae |
| Phylum: | Pisuviricota |
| Class: | Pisoniviricetes |
| Order: | Picornavirales |
| Family: | Picornaviridae |
| Genus: | Tremovirus |
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Tremovirus, also known epidemic tremor, is a virus genus belonging to the Picornaviridae family.[2] The genus has two species, Tremovirus A, which is also called Avian encephalomyelitis virus, and Tremovirus B. The first avian picornavirus to have its genome sequenced,[3] it causes epidemic tremor in chickens.
Tremovirus is of economic importance to chicken farmers because it causes a drop in egg production in laying hens, and neurological diseases in chicks less than three weeks old.
The domestic host is the chicken, but it can also infect partridge, turkeys, quail, guineafowl, and pheasants. It has a worldwide distribution.[4]
The virus can be spread by both vertical and horizontal transmission. It is not a zoonosis, meaning that it cannot be transmitted to humans.
- ^ Knowles, Nick (7 July 2014). "Rename 12 picornavirus species" (PDF). International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV). Retrieved 17 June 2019.
- ^ Marvil, P; Knowles, NJ; Mockett, AP; Britton, P; Brown, TD; Cavanagh, D (1999). "Avian encephalomyelitis virus is a picornavirus and is most closely related to hepatitis A virus". J Gen Virol. 80 ( Pt 3) (3): 653–62. doi:10.1099/0022-1317-80-3-653. PMID 10092005.
- ^ Avian encephalomyelitis virus Archived 2012-03-21 at the Wayback Machine at Picornaviridae.com (retrieved September 14, 2011
- ^ The Picornavirus Avian Encephalomyelitis Virus Possesses a Hepatitis C Virus-Like Internal Ribosome, Journal of Virology, February 2008, p. 1993–2003, Vol. 82, No. 4, by Mehran Bakhshesh, Elisabetta Groppelli, Margaret M. Willcocks, Elizabeth Royall, Graham J. Belsham, and Lisa O. Roberts