Rabies virus

species of virus

Rabies virus is a viral disease infection caused by the Lyssavirus, also known as Hydrophobia (fear of water), it is a virus strain of the disease that carried from mammals including dogs, cats, bats, raccoon, skunk, cattle, horse and monkeys but rarely by rodents. Rabies can be transmitted through animal saliva but more rarely in human saliva. The cases of the virus, reported more than 150 countries except Antarctica.

Rabies lyssavirus
TEM mikrogap na may maraming bilang ng biryon ng rabis (maliit na madilim na abo na parang pamalo ang butil) at Negri bodies (mas-malaking patognomikong selulyang inklusyon ng impeksyon ng rabis)
TEM micrograph with numerous rabies virions (small dark-grey rod-like particles) and Negri bodies (the larger pathognomonic cellular inclusions of rabies infection)
Virus classification Edit this classification
Unrecognized taxon (fix): Lyssavirus
Species:
Member viruses
Synonyms[1]
  • Rabies virus

Sypnosis change

The Rabies lyssavirus with a distinct bullet shaped "cyclindrical monophology" is the type of species by the Lyssaviruses is the genus family of Rhabdoviridae order of the "Mononegavirales", The viruses covered of the genome RNA, The genome encodes are five; including nucleoprotein, phosphoprotein, matrix protein, glycoprotein. The virus incubation showing symptoms in 14 days after the bite exposure by the rabid animal.

Bite exposure change

Once the virus reaches the brain through the central nervous system there is no treatment and the medicine would not help at all.

References change

  1. Walker, Peter (15 June 2015). "mplementation of taxon-wide non-Latinized binomial species names in the family Rhabdoviridae" (PDF). International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV). Retrieved 11 February 2019. Rabies virus Rabies lyssavirus rabies virus (RABV)[M13215]