Erschienen in:
01.05.2015 | Brief Report
A tortoise-infecting picornavirus expands the host range of the family Picornaviridae
verfasst von:
Terry Fei Fan Ng, James F. X. Wellehan, James K. Coleman, Nikola O. Kondov, Xutao Deng, Thomas B. Waltzek, Gábor Reuter, Nick J. Knowles, Eric Delwart
Erschienen in:
Archives of Virology
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Ausgabe 5/2015
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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.