Rhabdovirus

(noun)

Rhabdoviruses are viruses belonging to the family Rhabdoviridae,that infect a broad range of hosts throughout the animal and plant kingdoms.

Examples of Rhabdovirus in the following topics:

  • Emerging Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers

    • A recent study using deep sequencing, discovered a novel rhabdovirus (Bas-Congo virus, or BASV) associated with a 2009 outbreak of three human cases of acute hemorrhagic fever in Mangala village, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Africa.
    • The genome of BASV, assembled from over 140 million sequence reads, reveals that it is very different from any other rhabdovirus.