Asfarviridaeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

Asfarviridae is a family of viruses that primarily infects swine, resulting in an onset of African swine fever. Hence, its name is obtained from the acronym: African swine fever and related viruses. They are all enveloped and have double-stranded DNA as its genome. Several species exist, none of which are able to infect humans. The Asfarvirus exhibits some similarities in genome structure and replication strategies to the poxviruses and phycodnaviruses but has different virion structure from poxviruses and several other properties that distinguish it from the latter.