Our Hantaan Virus Became a New Family, Hantaviridae in the Classification of Order Bunyavirales. It will Remain as a History of Virology

Ho Wang Lee; Jin Won Song

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Lee and Song: Our Hantaan Virus Became a New Family, Hantaviridae in the Classification of Order Bunyavirales. It will Remain as a History of Virology

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Journal of Bacteriology and Virology 2019; 49(2): 45-52.

Published online: 30 June 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4167/jbv.2019.49.2.45

Our Hantaan Virus Became a New Family, Hantaviridae in the Classification of Order Bunyavirales. It will Remain as a History of Virology

Ho Wang Lee^1,², Jin Won Song²

¹The National Academy of Sciences, Republic of Korea.

²Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, Korea University, Seoul, Korea.

Corresponding: Ho Wang Lee, M.D., Ph.D. Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, Korea University, Inchon-ro 73, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul 02841, Korea. Phone: +82-2-2286-1336, Fax: +82-2-923-3645

Received 30 May 2019 Revised 14 June 2019 Accepted 17 June 2019

The Korean Society for Microbiology and The Korean Society of Virology

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This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/).

Abstract

In February 2019, the order Bunyavirales, previously family Bunyaviridae, was amended by new order of 10 families including Hantaviridae family, and now accepted by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV). Hantaviridae is now a family of the order Bunyavirales, and the prototype virus species is Hantaan orthohantavirus. The family Hantaviridae is divided into four subfamilies including Mammantavirinae, Repantavirinae, Actantavirinae and Agantavirinae. The subfamily Mammantavirinae is divided into four genera including Orthohantavirus, Loanvirus, Mobatvirus and Thottimvirus. The four Hantavirus species have been found in Korea including three Orthohantaviruses (Hantaan orthohantavirus, Seoul orthohantavirus and Jeju orthohantavirus) and one Thottimvirus (Imjin thottimvirus).

Keywords: order Bunyavirales, family Hantaviridae, genus Orthohantavirus, genus Thottimvirus, Hantaan orthohantanvirus, Seoul orthohantanvirus and Jeju orthohantanvirus, Imjin thottimvirus

Figures and Tables

Figure 1

Virus classification of Bunyavirales

Figure 2

Virus classification of Hantaviridae

Figure 3

Taxonomy history of Orthohantavirus from International Committee on Taxonomy of Virus(ICTV)

Notes

No potential conflict of interest relevant to this article was reported.

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