ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Parvoviridae

Susan Cotmore (1) , Mavis Agbandje-Mckenna (2) , Marta Canuti (3) , John Chiorini (4) , Anna-Maria Eis-Hubinger (5) , Joseph Hughes (6) , Mario Mietzsch (2) , Sejal Modha (6) , Mylène Ogliastro (7) , Judit Pénzes (2) , David Pintel (8) , Jianming Qiu (9) , Maria Soderlund-Venermo (10) , Peter Tattersall (1) , Peter Tijssen (11)

1 YSM - Yale School of Medicine [New Haven, Connecticut]
2 UF - University of Florida [Gainesville]
3 MUN - Memorial University of Newfoundland = Université Memorial de Terre-Neuve [St. John's, Canada]
4 NIH - National Institutes of Health [Bethesda]
5 University of Bonn Medical Centre [Bonn]
6 MRC - University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research
7 UM - Université de Montpellier
8 Mizzou - University of Missouri [Columbia]
9 University of Kansas Medical Center [Kansas City, KS, USA]
10 Helsingin yliopisto = Helsingfors universitet = University of Helsinki
11 INRS-IAF - Institut Armand Frappier

Members of the family Parvoviridae are small, resilient, non-enveloped viruses with linear, single-stranded DNA genomes of 4-6 kb. Viruses in two subfamilies, the Parvovirinae and Densovirinae, are distinguished primarily by their respective ability to infect vertebrates (including humans) versus invertebrates. Being genetically limited, most parvoviruses require actively dividing host cells and are host and/or tissue specific. Some cause diseases, which range from subclinical to lethal. A few require co-infection with helper viruses from other families. This is a summary of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) Report on the Parvoviridae, which is available at www.ictv.global/report/parvoviridae.

Keywords: Parvovirinae; Parvoviridae; taxonomy; Densovirinae; ICTV Report

Domains: Life Sciences [q-bio]; Microbiology and Parasitology; Virology

Susan Cotmore, Mavis Agbandje-Mckenna, Marta Canuti, John Chiorini, Anna-Maria Eis-Hubinger, et al.. ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Parvoviridae. Journal of General Virology, 2019, 100 (3), pp.367-368. ⟨10.1099/jgv.0.001212⟩. ⟨pasteur-02133263⟩