Isla Vista virus

Isla Vista virus
Virus classification Edit this classification
(unranked): Virus
Realm: Riboviria
Kingdom: Orthornavirae
Phylum: Negarnaviricota
Class: Bunyaviricetes
Order: Elliovirales
Family: Hantaviridae
Genus: Orthohantavirus
Virus:
Isla Vista virus

Isla Vista virus (ILV) is an enveloped, single-stranded, negative-sense RNA hantavirus. It is a novel New World microtine rodent hantavirus discovered in the California vole (M. californicus) in Santa Barbara County, California, near Isla Vista. It is similar to Prospect Hill virus, which has been isolated from a meadow vole (Microtus pennsylvanicus).[1]

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References

  1. ↑ Song W, Torrez-Martinez N, Irwin W, Harrison FJ, Davis R, Ascher M, Jay M, Hjelle B (1995). "Isla Vista virus: a genetically novel hantavirus of the California vole Microtus californicus". J. Gen. Virol. 76 (12): 3195–9. doi:10.1099/0022-1317-76-12-3195. PMID 8847529.