Proposed revision to the taxonomy of the genus Pestivirus, family Flaviviridae

TY - JOUR

T1 - Proposed revision to the taxonomy of the genus Pestivirus, family Flaviviridae

AU - Smith, Donald B.

AU - Meyers, Gregor

AU - Bukh, Jens

AU - Gould, Ernest A.

AU - Monath, Thomas

AU - Muerhoff, A. Scott

AU - Pletnev, Alexander

AU - Rico-Hesse, Rebecca

AU - Stapleton, Jack T.

AU - Simmonds, Peter

AU - Becher, Paul

PY - 2017

Y1 - 2017

N2 - We propose the creation of seven new species in the genus Pestivirus (family Flaviviridae) in addition to the four existing species, and naming species in a host-independent manner using the format Pestivirus X. Only the virus species names would change; virus isolates would still be referred to by their original names. The original species would be re-designated as Pestivirus A (original designation Bovine viral diarrhea virus 1), Pestivirus B (Bovine viral diarrhea virus 2), Pestivirus C (Classical swine fever virus) and Pestivirus D (Border disease virus). The seven new species (and example isolates) would be Pestivirus E (pronghorn pestivirus), Pestivirus F (Bungowannah virus), Pestivirus G (giraffe pestivirus), Pestivirus H (Hobi-like pestivirus), Pestivirus I (Aydin-like pestivirus), Pestivirus J (rat pestivirus) and Pestivirus K (atypical porcine pestivirus). A batderived virus and pestiviruses identified from sheep and goat (Tunisian sheep pestiviruses), which lack complete coding region sequences, may represent two additional species.

AB - We propose the creation of seven new species in the genus Pestivirus (family Flaviviridae) in addition to the four existing species, and naming species in a host-independent manner using the format Pestivirus X. Only the virus species names would change; virus isolates would still be referred to by their original names. The original species would be re-designated as Pestivirus A (original designation Bovine viral diarrhea virus 1), Pestivirus B (Bovine viral diarrhea virus 2), Pestivirus C (Classical swine fever virus) and Pestivirus D (Border disease virus). The seven new species (and example isolates) would be Pestivirus E (pronghorn pestivirus), Pestivirus F (Bungowannah virus), Pestivirus G (giraffe pestivirus), Pestivirus H (Hobi-like pestivirus), Pestivirus I (Aydin-like pestivirus), Pestivirus J (rat pestivirus) and Pestivirus K (atypical porcine pestivirus). A batderived virus and pestiviruses identified from sheep and goat (Tunisian sheep pestiviruses), which lack complete coding region sequences, may represent two additional species.

KW - ICTV

KW - Pestivirus

KW - Taxonomy

U2 - 10.1099/jgv.0.000873

DO - 10.1099/jgv.0.000873

M3 - Journal article

C2 - 28786787

AN - SCOPUS:85028360589

SN - 0022-1317

VL - 98

SP - 2106

EP - 2112

JO - Journal of General Virology

JF - Journal of General Virology

IS - 8

ER -