Quaranfil quaranjavirus is the type virus of the Quaranjavirus genus in the virus family Orthomyxoviridae. It has a negative sense, single-stranded RNA genome composed of 6 segments. Its hosts are ticks, birds, and humans. It was isolated from ticks near Cairo, Egypt in 1953.[2] The virus can infect humans, as confirmed by serological study of human serum samples in Egypt in the 1960s that showed that 8% of the local population had neutralizing antibodies to the virus. The virus has not yet been connected to a human disease.[3]
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Virus classification 
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| (unranked): | Virus |
| Realm: | Riboviria |
| Kingdom: | Orthornavirae |
| Phylum: | Negarnaviricota |
| Class: | Insthoviricetes |
| Order: | Articulavirales |
| Family: | Orthomyxoviridae |
| Genus: | Quaranjavirus |
| Species: | Quaranfil quaranjavirus
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Quaranfil virus | |
References
edit- ^ Smith, Gavin JD; et al. (8 June 2017). "Changing individual genus and species names in the family Orthomyxoviridae". International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV). Retrieved 4 June 2019.
- ^ Taylor, RM (1966). "Arboviruses isolated from ARGAS TICKS IN Egypt: Quaranfil, Chenuda, and Nyamanini". Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 15 (1): 76–86. doi:10.4269/ajtmh.1966.15.76. PMID 5901633.
- ^ Presti, Rachel M.; Zhao, Guoyan; Beatty, Wandy L.; Mihindukulasuriya, Kathie A.; Rosa, Amelia P. A. Travassos da; Popov, Vsevolod L.; Tesh, Robert B.; Virgin, Herbert W.; Wang, David (2009-11-15). "Quaranfil, Johnston Atoll, and Lake Chad Viruses Are Novel Members of the Family Orthomyxoviridae". Journal of Virology. 83 (22): 11599–11606. doi:10.1128/JVI.00677-09. ISSN 0022-538X. PMC 2772707. PMID 19726499.