ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Peribunyaviridae

Wellcome Trust (WT108418AIA); Fundac?a?o de Amparo a? Pesquisa do Estado de Sa?o Paulo, Brazil (17/13981?0) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Fort Collins, CO, USA. United States Department of Agriculture. Agricultural Research Service. Fort Pierce, FL, USA. D. I. Ivanovsky Institute of Virology. Moscow, Russia. Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut. Greifswald-Insel Riems. Germany. Colorado State University. Fort Collins, CO, USA. Public Health Agency of Canada. Winnipeg, MB, Canada. University of Campinas. Campinas, SP, Brazil. Charit?-Universit?tsmedizin Berlin. Berlin, Germany / Humboldt-University Berlin. Berlin, Germany / Berlin Institute of Health. Berlin, Germany. Minist?rio da Sa?de. Secretaria de Vigil?ncia em Sa?de. Instituto Evandro Chagas. Ananindeua, PA, Brasil. MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research. Glasgow, UK. Peribunyaviruses are enveloped and possess three distinct, single-stranded, negative-sense RNA segments comprising 11.2?12.5kb in total. The family includes globally distributed viruses in the genera Orthobunyavirus, Herbevirus, Pacuvirus and Shangavirus. Most viruses are maintained in geographically-restricted vertebrate?arthropod transmission cycles that can include transovarial transmission from arthropod dam to offspring. Others are arthropod-specific. Arthropods can be persistently infected. Human infection occurs through blood feeding by an infected vector arthropod. Infections can result in a diversity of human and veterinary clinical outcomes in a strain-specific manner. Segment reassortment is evident between some peribunyaviruses