Lyssavirus
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Lyssavirus (from a Greek word meaning frenzy) is a genus of viruses belonging to the family Rhabdoviridae, in the order Mononegavirales.
This group of RNA viruses includes the Rabies virus traditionally associated with the disease.
Viruses typically have either helical or cubic symmetry. Lyssaviruses have helical symmetry, so their infectious particles are approximately cylindrical in shape. This is typical of plant-infecting viruses. Human-infecting viruses more commonly have cubic symmetry and take shapes approximating regular polyhedra.
[edit] External links
- Arai YT, Kuzmin IV, Kameoka Y, Botvinkin AD. New lyssavirus genotype from the lesser mouse-eared bat (Myotis blythi), Kyrghyzstan. Emerg Infect Dis 2003 Mar.
- Botvinkin AD, Poleschuk EM, Kuzmin IV, Borisoa TI, Gazaryan SV, Yager P, et al. Novel lyssaviruses isolated from bats in Russia. Emerg Infect Dis 2003 Dec.
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