Hepacivirus

Hepacivirus
Hepacivirus structure and genome
Virus classification
(unranked): Virus
Realm: Riboviria
Kingdom: Orthornavirae
Phylum: Kitrinoviricota
Class: Flasuviricetes
Order: Amarillovirales
Family: Flaviviridae
Genus: Hepacivirus
Synonyms
  • Hepatitis C-like viruses[1]
  • Hepatitis virus C group[2]

Hepacivirus is a genus of positive-strand RNA viruses in the family Flaviviridae.[3] The hepatitis C virus (HCV), in species Hepacivirus hominis, infects humans and is associated with hepatitis and hepatocellular carcinoma.[3][4] There are fourteen species in the genus which infect a range of other vertebrate.[3]

  1. ^ Pringle, C. R. (1996). "Virus Taxonomy 1996 - A Bulletin from the Xth International Congress of Virology in Jerusalem" (PDF). Archives of Virology. 141 (11): 2251–6. doi:10.1007/BF01718231. ISSN 1432-8798. OCLC 76349762. PMC 7086844. PMID 8992952. Retrieved 13 March 2019. To name the genus comprising the hepatitis C-like viruses as the genus Hepacivirus.
  2. ^ 1ICTV 6th Report Murphy, F. A., Fauquet, C. M., Bishop, D. H. L., Ghabrial, S. A., Jarvis, A. W. Martelli, G. P. Mayo, M. A. & Summers, M. D.(eds)(1995). Virus Taxonomy. Sixthreport of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses. Archives of Virology Supplement 10, p. 424 https://ictv.global/ictv/proposals/ICTV%206th%20Report.pdf
  3. ^ a b c "Flaviviridae". International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV).
  4. ^ "Viral Zone". ExPASy. Retrieved 15 June 2015.
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