Menglavirus
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Menglavirus ( Pinyin Mĕnglà virus , English Mengla virus , scientifically Mengla dianlovirus ) is a species from the family of viruses from the biology Filoviridae , which also includes the Ebola virus and the Marburg virus .
history
The virus was discovered in December 2015. It was genetically detected in the liver of rosette bat from the rainforest in Mengla County ( Chinese 勐 腊 , Pinyin Měnglà ) in the south of the Chinese province of Yunnan near the border with Laos and Myanmar . It was named after this circle by Xing-Lou Yang (Virological Institute of Wuhan Province ) and employees.
Menglavirus is said to be pathogenic to humans, as indicated by a central area of a surface protein with which Filoviridae bind to target cells and which corresponds to those of other Filoviridae. Other viruses, which were equipped with genes of the Menglavirus and secreted its glycoproteins , were contagious in cell cultures for hamsters , dogs , monkeys and humans . It is therefore the potential trigger of a zoonosis . In total, 32 to 54 percent of the virus's gene sequence should match that of other Filoviridae, which is why the virus was assigned to its own new genus. The spread of the virus is still unclear.
Individual evidence
- ↑ ICTV Master Species List 2018b.v2 . MSL # 34, March 2019
- ↑ a b ICTV: ICTV Taxonomy history: Akabane orthobunyavirus , EC 51, Berlin, Germany, July 2019; Email ratification March 2020 (MSL # 35)
- ↑ Doctors newspaper : New Ebola-related virus discovered in fruit bats, Doctors newspaper online, January 11, 2019
- ↑ New Ebola virus discovered. In: ärzteblatt. January 8, 2019, accessed January 10, 2019 .
Web links
- Laura J. Sherwood, Andrew Hayhurst: Periplasmic Nanobody-APEX2 Fusions Enable Facile Visualization of Ebola, Marburg, and Mĕnglà virus Nucleoproteins, Alluding to Similar Antigenic Landscapes among Marburgvirus and Dianlovirus , in: Viruses 2019, 11 (4), 364; doi: 10.3390 / v11040364
- Michaela Fleming: New Bat-Borne Filovirus Identified in China , in: Contagion Live, January 9, 2019
- ScienceDaily: New bat-borne virus related to Ebola , January 7, 2019, Source: Duke University Medical Center
- Muhammad Munir: Mengla: the Ebola-like virus recently found in China , in: The Conversation, January 16, 2019
- Rich Haridy: New Ebola-like virus called Mengla discovered in China , in: New Atlas, January 10, 2019