ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Arenaviridae 2023
Sheli R. Radoshitzky, Michael J. Buchmeier, Rémi N. Charrel, Jean‐Paul Gonzalez, Stephan Günther, Jussi Hepojoki, Jens H. Kuhn, Igor S. Lukashevich, Vı́ctor Romanowski, María S. Salvato, Manuela Sironi, Mark D. Stenglein, Juan Carlos de la Torre
Abstract
Arenaviridae is a family for ambisense RNA viruses with genomes of about 10.5 kb that infect mammals, snakes, and fish. The arenavirid genome consists of two or three single-stranded RNA segments and encodes a nucleoprotein (NP), a glycoprotein (GP) and a large (L) protein containing RNA-directed RNA polymerase (RdRP) domains; some arenavirids encode a zinc-binding protein (Z). This is a summary of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) report on the family Arenaviridae , which is available at www.ictv.global/report/arenaviridae .