| Literature DB >> 25721297 |
Terry Fei Fan Ng1, James F X Wellehan, James K Coleman, Nikola O Kondov, Xutao Deng, Thomas B Waltzek, Gábor Reuter, Nick J Knowles, Eric Delwart.
Abstract
While picornaviruses can cause diseases in many mammals, little is known of their host range for replication in non-mammalian vertebrates. Here, a picornavirus in liver and kidney tissues from diseased Sulawesi tortoises (Indotestudo forsteni) was genetically characterized. Tortoise rafivirus A (ToRaV-A, KJ415177) represents a potential new genus in the family Picornaviridae, for which we propose the name "Rafivirus". Our finding confirms the susceptibility of reptiles to picornaviruses.Entities:
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Year: 2015 PMID: 25721297 PMCID: PMC4395542 DOI: 10.1007/s00705-015-2366-6
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Arch Virol ISSN: 0304-8608 Impact factor: 2.574