Paramyxoviridae

Paramyxoviridae
Mæslingevirus 100-200 nm i diameter
Mæslingevirus
100-200 nm i diameter
Videnskabelig klassifikation
DomæneVira (Virus)
(urangeret)Gruppe V (-ssRNA)
OrdenMononegavirales
FamilieParamyxoviridae
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Tilhører gruppen af negativ enkeltstrenget RNA-virus (Gruppe V, -ssRNA)

Klassifikation

Paramyxoviridae inddeles i 2 underfamilier med henholdsvis 5 og 2 slægter.

Paramyxovirinae

  • Avulavirus
  • Henipavirus
  • Morbillivirus
    • Mæslingevirus
    • Canine distemper virus (Hundesyge)
    • Cetacean morbillivirus
    • Peste-des-petits-ruminants virus
    • Phocine distemper virus
    • Rinderpest virus
  • Respirovirus
    • Bovine parainfluenza virus 3
    • Sendai virus
    • Human parainfluenza virus 1
    • Human parainfluenza virus 3
    • Simian virus 10
  • Rubulavirus
    • Fåresyge virus
    • Human parainfluenza virus 2
    • Human parainfluenza virus 4
    • Mapuera virus
    • Porcine rubulavirus
    • Simian virus 5
    • Simian virus 41

Pneumovirinae

  • Pneumovirus
    • Bovine respiratory syncytial virus
    • Human respiratory syncytial virus
    • Murine pneumonia virus
  • Metapneumovirus
    • Avian metapneumovirus
    • Human metapneumovirus

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Measles virus.JPG
This thin-section transmission electron micrograph (TEM) revealed the ultrastructural appearance of a single virus particle, or “virion”, of measles virus. The measles virus is a paramyxovirus, of the genus Morbillivirus. It is 100-200 nm in diameter, with a core of single-stranded RNA, and is closely related to the rinderpest and canine distemper viruses. Two membrane envelope proteins are important in pathogenesis. They are the F (fusion) protein, which is responsible for fusion of virus and host cell membranes, viral penetration, and hemolysis, and the H (hemagglutinin) protein, which is responsible for adsorption of virus to cells.

There is only one antigenic type of measles virus. Although studies have documented changes in the H glycoprotein, these changes do not appear to be epidemiologically important (i.e., no change in vaccine efficacy has been observed).

Prior to 1963, almost everyone got measles; it was an expected life event. Each year in the U.S. there were approximately 3 to 4 million cases and an average of 450 deaths, with epidemic cycles every 2 to 3 years. More than half the population had measles by the time they were 6 years old, and 90 % had the disease by the time they were 15. This indicates that many more cases were occurring than were being reported. However, after the vaccine became available, the number of measles cases dropped by 98 % and the epidemic cycles drastically diminished.

Measles virus is rapidly inactivated by heat, light, acidic pH, ether, and trypsin. It has a short survival time (<2 hours) in the air, or on objects and surfaces.