Picornavirus
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Picornaviruses are a group of related nonenveloped RNA viruses which infect vertebrates including fish, mammals, and birds. They are viruses that represent a large family of small, positive-sense, single-stranded RNA viruses with a 30 nm icosahedral capsid. The viruses in this family can cause a range of diseases including the common cold, poliomyelitis, meningitis, hepatitis, and paralysis.
Species
Family
- OrderPicornavirales
- FamilyPicornaviridae
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Research
47,401 papers- Picornavirus translation strategies.FEBS open bio · 2022
- Picornavirus morphogenesis.Microbiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR · 2014
- Picornavirus-receptor interactions.Trends in microbiology · 2002
- Picornavirus entry.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2013
- Picornavirus inhibitors.Pharmacology & therapeutics · 1994
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Encyclopedic overview
16 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- History
- Virology
- Structure
- Genome
- Replication
- RNA elements
- Lifecycle
- Viral protein (VPg)
- Assembly and organization of the picornavirus VPg ribonucleoprotein complex
- Diseases
- Taxonomy
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Picornaviruses are a group of related nonenveloped RNA viruses which infect vertebrates including fish, mammals, and birds. They are viruses that represent a large family of small, positive-sense, single-stranded RNA viruses with a 30 nm icosahedral capsid. The viruses in this family can cause a range of diseases including the common cold, poliomyelitis, meningitis, hepatitis, and paralysis.
Picornaviruses constitute the family Picornaviridae, order Picornavirales, and realm Riboviria. There are 159 species in this family, assigned to 68 genera, most of which belong to 5 subfamilies. Notable examples are genera Enterovirus (including Rhinovirus and Poliovirus), Aphthovirus, Cardiovirus, and Hepatovirus.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Picornavirus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.