Borna disease, also known as sad horse disease, is an infectious neurological syndrome of warm-blooded animals, caused by Borna disease viruses 1 and 2 (BoDV-1/2). BoDV-1/2 are neurotropic viruses of the species Orthobornavirus bornaense, and...
The Borna disease viruses 1 and 2 (BoDV-1 and BoDV-2) are members of the species Mammalian 1 orthobornavirus and cause Borna disease in mammals.
Bornaviridae is a family of negative-strand RNA viruses in the order Mononegavirales. Horses, sheep, cattle, rodents, birds, reptiles, and humans serve as natural hosts. Diseases associated with bornaviruses include Borna disease, a fatal neurologic...
Juergen A. Richt (also rendered Jürgen A. Richt) is a veterinary virologist and academic. He is a Regents and University Distinguished Professor at Kansas State University, where he is based in the Department of Diagnostic Medicine and Pathobiology...
Walter Ian Lipkin (born November 18, 1952) is an American epidemiologist, microbiologist, and pathologist who is the John Snow Professor of Epidemiology and Director, Center for Infection and Immunity at Columbia University's Mailman School of...
Many chronic diseases and cancers are associated with infectious microbes. By this it is meant that the associated microbe is found in the tissues of patients with the disease more frequently than in the bodies of healthy people. When a microbe such...
An RNA virus is a virus characterized by a ribonucleic acid (RNA) based genome. The genome can be single-stranded RNA (ssRNA) or double-stranded (dsRNA). Notable human diseases caused by RNA viruses include influenza, SARS, MERS, COVID-19, Dengue...
Virus classification is the process of naming viruses and placing them into a taxonomic system similar to the classification systems used for cellular organisms. Viruses are classified by phenotypic characteristics, such as morphology, nucleic acid...