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the ambisense viruses are a hybrid mixture of Group IV virus (positive sense
single-stranded) and a negative sense virus. Nevertheless, transcription in
ambisense viruses is coupled with translation of the viral genome to a
complementary RNA strand, a process that is characteristic of the Group V
viruses [136]. Consequently, the ambisense viruses are currently included in
the “unassigned” subclasses of the Group V viruses.
Among the Group V RNA viruses pathogenic to humans, there is one
assigned class of viruses, Class Monongavirales, which includes the following
subclasses: Bornaviridae, Filoviridae, Paramyxoviridae, and Rhabdoviridae.
The remaining Class V viruses belong to unassigned subclasses (i.e., with no
named taxonomic superclass) or unassigned genera (i.e. belonging to no assigned
class). The
unassigned
classes
are: Arenaviridae, Bunyaviridae,
and
Orthomyxoviridae. Deltavirus is an unassigned genus.
The Group V viruses are numerous, and it would be unproductive to
describe each virus in detail. Readers who are interested can link the viral
names (listed at the end of the chapter), with web resources. The following
discussion will include viral disorders that typify their class or that highlight
recent findings that might have been omitted from previously published
virology texts. A listing of the Group V viruses, along with their associated
diseases and clinical conditions, arranged by subclass, is found at the end of
the chapter.
Group V (
)ssRNA
Mononegavirales (nonsegmented)
Paramyxoviridae
Henipavirus
*Hendra virus
*Nipah virus
Rubulavirus
*Mumps virus
*Parainfluenza types 2, 4a and 4b
Morbillivirus
*Measels virus, also known as Rubeola or Morbilli virus
Avulavirus
*Newcastle disease virus
*Metapneumovirus
Pneumovirus
*Respiratory syncytial virus, RSV
*Parainfluenza Types 1 to 4
Rhabdoviridae
Lyssavirus
*Duvenhage
*Rabies virus
