Sin Nombre Virus
| Sin Nombre Virus | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sin Nombre Virus |
||||||||||||||||||||
| Systematics | ||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic characteristics | ||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||
| Scientific name | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Sin Nombre orthohantavirus | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Short name | ||||||||||||||||||||
| SNV | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Left | ||||||||||||||||||||
|
.jpg)
The Sin Nombre Virus ( scientifically Sin Nombre orthohantavirus , SNV, obsolete Four Corner Virus ) belongs to the genus of the Hantaviruses (family of the Hantaviridae ).
The name comes from Spanish and means virus without a name .
construction
It is an enveloped virus whose natural host is the deer mouse . The virus can get into the human lungs via the air in the form of an aerosol via their dried excrement .
Genome
The genome consists of three segments of linear, single-stranded RNA with negative polarity , which are associated with the capsid proteins and arranged in a spiral.
Pathology and epidemiology
The Sin Nombre virus is, among other things, the cause of the hantavirus-associated cardiopulmonary syndrome (HPS / HCPS). The mortality from this disease is between 30 and 40%.
For the first time, after an unusually wet spring in 1993, a regionally limited epidemic occurred in the southwestern United States (hence the original name Four Corner Virus ). Of the 48 mostly young patients, 27 (55%) died. Between 1993 and 2015, there were a total of 659 illnesses in the United States with 235 deaths.
literature
- Medical microbiology, Thieme Verlag
Web links
- ICTV Virus Taxonomy, 2016 release. Order: Bunyavirales
- Dying Trees Make Way for Mice With Deadly Disease
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)