Biology:Abney virus

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Abney virus
Virus classification e
(unranked): Virus
Realm: Riboviria
Kingdom: Orthornavirae
Phylum: Duplornaviricota
Class: Resentoviricetes
Order: Reovirales
Family: Sedoreoviridae
Genus: Orthoreovirus
Species: Mammalian orthoreovirus
Serotype: Mammalian orthoreovirus 3
Strain:
Abney virus

The Abney virus is a virus, isolated from an anal swab of a seventeen-month-old African-American child named Abney who, while living within the care of an institution began suffering an upper respiratory illness, which became a prototype strain of Orthoreovirus type 3.[1][2] The virus was isolated in children, in Washington, from October 1955 to February 1956, 26 of the 34 children showed evidence of the reovirus Type 3 infection.[3]

The isolated strain was one of five such strains found during the study, each isolated from the same child in successive cultures in September 1957. The isolated virus showed resistance to Ethyl Ether, among other traits similar to the other Orthoreoviruses. At the time of isolation, no causal relationship between the virus and any illness was established, however, modern studies of other Orthoreoviruses have established a connection. [1][4] [5]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Observations on a newly recognized virus (Abney) of the reovirus family". Am J Hyg 71 (2): 258–65. 1960. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a120109. PMID 14438889. 
  2. Mahy, Brian W J (2001). A dictionary of virology (3. ed.). San Diego, Calif. [u.a.]: Academic Press. pp. 1. ISBN 978-0-12-465327-6. https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofviro0000mahy. 
  3. ROSEN, LEON; HOVIS, JANET F.; MASTROTA, FRANCIS M.; BELL, JOSEPH A.; HUEBNER, ROBERT J. (1960). "Observations on a Newly Recognized Virus (Abney) of the Reovirus Family1". American Journal of Epidemiology 71 (2): 258–265. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a120109. ISSN 1476-6256. PMID 14438889. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a120109. 
  4. Mahy, Brian W J (2001). A dictionary of virology (3. ed.). San Diego, Calif. [u.a.]: Academic Press. pp. 1. ISBN 978-0-12-465327-6. https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofviro0000mahy. 
  5. Qin, Pan; Li, Huan; Wang, Jing-Wei; Wang, Bin; Xie, Rong-Hui; Xu, Hui; Zhao, Ling-Yan; Li, Long et al. (September 2017). "Genetic and pathogenic characterization of a novel reassortant mammalian orthoreovirus 3 (MRV3) from a diarrheic piglet and seroepidemiological survey of MRV3 in diarrheic pigs from east China". Veterinary Microbiology 208: 126–136. doi:10.1016/j.vetmic.2017.07.021. ISSN 1873-2542. PMID 28888627. 

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