Rhabdoviridae

As rhabdoviruses (Greek: rhabdos - bar ) refers to the virus of the Rhabdoviridae family. Members of this family have vertebrates, insects or plants as a host. All of these viruses are enveloped single (-)- strand RNA viruses = ss ( - ) RNA, usually rod-shaped, cylindrical shape.

Features

The outer shell of rhabdoviruses consists of protein molecules, which are usually equipped with small hairs. The hairs serve the virus to penetrate into the cells, which presumably occurs by endocytosis. The core of rhabdoviruses consists of a minus - strand RNA ( complementary to mRNA).

System

The rhabdoviruses belonging to the genera of vesiculoviruses and lyssaviruses

The vesiculoviruses heard the vesicular stomatitis virus ( VSV), which in animals vesicular stomatitis ( inflammation of the oral mucosa with vesicle formation) and triggers can also be transferred to humans.

Lyssaviren

The Lyssaviren include rabies in animals and humans causing rabies virus, Australian bat lyssavirus, which Duvenhage virus, two European bat lyssaviruses, Lagos bat virus that, as well as the Mokola virus. The viruses usually have either a helical or cubic symmetry, while lyssaviruses have a helical symmetry, ie their infectious particles are approximately cylindrical in shape. This is actually typical of viruses that infect plants. Infest humans viruses more likely to have cubic symmetry in general and accept figures come close to the regular polyhedra.