Bunyaviruses and the type I interferon system

The family Bunyaviridae contains more than 350 viruses that are distributed throughout the world. Most members of the family are transmitted by arthopods, and several cause disease in man, domesticated animals and crop plants. Despite being recognized as an emerging threat, details of the virulence mechanisms employed by bunyaviruses are scant. In this article we summarise the information currently available on how these viruses are able to establish infection when confronted with a powerful antiviral interferon system.

Citation

Elliott , R M & Weber , F 2009 , ' Bunyaviruses and the type I interferon system ' , Viruses , vol. 1 , no. 3 , pp. 1003-1021 . https://doi.org/10.3390/v1031003

Publication

Viruses

Status

Peer reviewed

DOI

https://doi.org/10.3390/v1031003

ISSN

1999-4915

Type

Journal article

Rights

© 2009 by the authors; licensee Molecular Diversity Preservation International, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open-access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).