ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Nairoviridae
Aura R. Garrison, Sergey V. Alkhovsky Альховский Сергей Владимирович, Tatjana Avšič‐Županc, Dennis A. Bente, Éric Bergeron, Felicity J. Burt, Nicholas Di Paola, Koray Ergünay, Roger Hewson, Jens H. Kuhn, Alì Mirazimi, Anna Papa, Amadou Alpha Sall, Jessica R. Spengler, Gustavo Palacios
Abstract
Members of the family Nairoviridae produce enveloped virions with three single-stranded RNA segments comprising 17.1 to 22.8 kb in total. These viruses are maintained in arthropods and transmitted by ticks to mammals or birds. Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus is tick-borne and is endemic in most of Asia, Africa, Southern and Eastern Europe whereas Nairobi sheep disease virus, which is also tick-borne, causes lethal haemorrhagic gastroenteritis in small ruminants in Africa and India. This is a summary of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) Report on the family Nairoviridae , which is available at ictv.global/report/nairoviridae .