Human parainfluenza virus
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 A Transmission Electron Micrograph (TEM) depicting parainfluenza virions, and free filamentous nucleocapsid material.
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This page is about microbiologic aspects of the organism(s). For clinical aspects of the disease, see Croup.
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1] Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Luke Rusowicz-Orazem, B.S.
Overview
Microbiological Characteristics
- Human parainfluenza viruses (HPIVs) are a group of four serotypes of enveloped, single stranded negative sense RNA viruses.[1]
- The human parainfluenza virus genome consists of approximately 15,000 nucleotides used to encode the following six structural proteins:.[2]