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Welcome to the home of PicornavirusesThe family Picornaviridae belongs to the order Picornavirales and consists of 8 genera: Enterovirus, Cardiovirus, Aphthovirus, Hepatovirus, Parechovirus, Erbovirus, Kobuvirus and Teschovirus, plus three proposed genera named "Sapelovirus", "Senecavirus" and "Tremovirus". The two human rhinovirus species have been moved to the genus Enterovirus; the genus Rhinovirus no longer exists. Three other picornaviruses, whose genomes have recently been completely sequenced, have been proposed as belonging to novel genera are duck hepatitis virus 1, seal picornavirus 1 and human cosavirus. Proposals to designate these as such are in preparation. Thus in the near future the Picornaviridae will probably consist of 14 genera and 33 species. Please note that formally and informally proposed taxa are indicated by their names being displayed in quotation marks and are non-italicised. These names should be used with caution as it is possible that they could change before final acceptance by the ICTV (see the Picornaviridae Study Group pages for more information). In publications these should be referred to as, for example: ...the proposed genus "Sapelovirus" Other new picornaviruses... >> Saffold viruses: new members of the species Theilovirus in man. >> A new candidate species of kobuvirus has been reported from pigs, tentatively named porcine kobuvirus. >> An enterovirus has recently been reported from a bottlenose dolphin (Nollens et al., unpublished); the sequence (EU886967) identifies it as a bovine enterovirus. Forthcoming Events
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