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==Organism== | ==Organism== | ||
*Zika virus, also known as '''''ZIKV''''', is an enveloped, icosahedral virus with a single-stranded, positive sense RNA genome. The most closely related virus is the [[Spondweni virus]] and is one of the two viruses in the Spondweni virus clade.<ref name="Fields">FIELDS, B. N., KNIPE, D. M., & HOWLEY, P. M. (2007). Fields virology. Philadelphia, Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.</ref> | *Zika virus, also known as '''''ZIKV''''', is an enveloped, icosahedral virus with a single-stranded, positive sense RNA genome. The most closely related virus is the [[Spondweni virus]] and is one of the two viruses in the Spondweni virus clade.<ref name="Fields">FIELDS, B. N., KNIPE, D. M., & HOWLEY, P. M. (2007). Fields virology. Philadelphia, Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.</ref> | ||
*The ZIKV genome consists of 10,794 nucleotides that encode 3,419 amino acids<ref name="pmid19788800">{{cite journal| author=Hayes EB| title=Zika virus outside Africa. | journal=Emerg Infect Dis | year= 2009 | volume= 15 | issue= 9 | pages= 1347-50 | pmid=19788800 | doi=10.3201/eid1509.090442 | pmc=PMC2819875 | url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=19788800 }} </ref>*ZIKV is a member of the [[Flaviviridae|Flaviviridae]] family and of the [[Flavivirus|flavivirus]] genus. | *The ZIKV genome consists of 10,794 nucleotides that encode 3,419 amino acids<ref name="pmid19788800">{{cite journal| author=Hayes EB| title=Zika virus outside Africa. | journal=Emerg Infect Dis | year= 2009 | volume= 15 | issue= 9 | pages= 1347-50 | pmid=19788800 | doi=10.3201/eid1509.090442 | pmc=PMC2819875 | url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=19788800 }} </ref> | ||
*ZIKV is a member of the [[Flaviviridae|Flaviviridae]] family and of the [[Flavivirus|flavivirus]] genus. | |||
*There are two lineages for ZIKV: African and Asian.<ref name="pmid19788800"></ref> | *There are two lineages for ZIKV: African and Asian.<ref name="pmid19788800"></ref> | ||
==Refererences== | ==Refererences== | ||
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Revision as of 15:13, 15 December 2015
This page is about microbiologic aspects of the organism(s). For clinical aspects of the disease, see Zika virus infection.
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Nate Michalak, B.A.
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Organism
- Zika virus, also known as ZIKV, is an enveloped, icosahedral virus with a single-stranded, positive sense RNA genome. The most closely related virus is the Spondweni virus and is one of the two viruses in the Spondweni virus clade.[1]
- The ZIKV genome consists of 10,794 nucleotides that encode 3,419 amino acids[2]
- ZIKV is a member of the Flaviviridae family and of the flavivirus genus.
- There are two lineages for ZIKV: African and Asian.[2]
Refererences
- ↑ FIELDS, B. N., KNIPE, D. M., & HOWLEY, P. M. (2007). Fields virology. Philadelphia, Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Hayes EB (2009). "Zika virus outside Africa". Emerg Infect Dis. 15 (9): 1347–50. doi:10.3201/eid1509.090442. PMC 2819875. PMID 19788800.