Authors: Nairoviridae

Jens H. Kuhn
Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
National Institutes of Health
Fort Detrick
Frederick
Maryland 21702
USA
Email: kuhnjens@mail.nih.gov

Sergey V. Alkhovsky [Альховский Сергей Владимирович]
D.I. Ivanovsky Institute of Virology of N.F. Gamaleya National Center on Epidemiology and Microbiology of Ministry of Health of Russian Federation
Moscow
Russia
E-mail: salkh@ya.ru


Tatjana Avšič-Županc
Institute of Microbiology and Immunology
Faculty of Medicine
University of Ljubljana
Ljubljana
Slovenia
E-mail: Tatjana.Avsic@mf.uni-lj.si


Éric Bergeron
Division of High-Consequence Pathogens and Pathology
Viral Special Pathogens Branch
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Atlanta
Georgia 30333 
USA
E-mail: exj8@CDC.GOV


Felicity Burt
Division of Virology
National Health Laboratory Service and Division of Virology
University of the Free State
Bloemfontein
South Africa
E-mail: burtfj@ufs.ac.za


Koray Ergünay
Department of Medical Microbiology
Virology Unit
Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine
Ankara 06230
Turkey
E-mail: ekoray@hacettepe.edu.tr


Aura R. Garrison
United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases
Fort Detrick
Frederick
Maryland 21702
USA
E-mail: aura.r.garrison.civ@health.mil


Marco Marklewitz
FIND
Geneva
Switzerland
E-mail: marco.marklewitz@finddx.org


Ali Mirazimi
Folkhalsomyndigheten
Stockholm
Sweden
E-mail: ali.mirazimi@ki.se


Anna Papa [Άννα Παπά]
National Reference Centre for Arboviruses and Haemorrhagic Fever viruses
Department of Microbiology
Medical School
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki
Greece
E-mail: annap@med.auth.gr


Janusz T. Pawęska
Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Diseases
National Institute for Communicable Diseases of the National Health Laboratory Service
2131 Sandringham-Johannesburg
Gauteng
South Africa
Email: januszp@nicd.ac.za

Jessica R. Spengler
Division of High-Consequence Pathogens and Pathology
Viral Special Pathogens Branch
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Atlanta
Georgia 30333
USA
E-mail: wsk7@cdc.gov


Gustavo Palacios*
Chair, Nairoviridae Study Group
Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York
New York
USA
Email: gustavo.palacios@mssm.edu 


* to whom correspondence should be addressed
 

Authors who contributed to a previous version of this Report

Dennis Bente,  Nicholas Di Paola,  Roger Hewson, Amadou Alpha Sall 
 

The chapter in the Ninth ICTV Report, which served as the template for this chapter, was contributed by Plyusnin, A., Beaty, B.J., Elliott, R.M., Goldbach, R., Kormelink, R., Lundkvist, Å., Schmaljohn, C.S. and Tesh, R.B.

Acknowledgments
The authors thank Anya Crane and Jiro Wada (Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Fort Detrick, Frederick, MD, USA) for critically editing the text and preparing figures. This manuscript was prepared whilst K.E. held a National Research Council (NRC) Research Associateship Awards at the Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit, through the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD, USA.

Disclaimer
This work was supported in part through Laulima Government Solutions, LLC’s prime contract with the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) under Contract No. HHSN272201800013C. J.H.K. performed this work as an employee of Tunnell Government Services (TGS), a subcontractor of Laulima Government Solutions, LLC, under Contract No. HHSN272201800013C. The content of this publication should not be interpreted as necessarily representing the official policies, either expressed or implied, of the U.S. Department of the Army, U.S. Department of the Navy, the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, or of the institutions and companies affiliated with the authors, nor does mention of trade names, commercial products, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government. Material contained within this publication has been reviewed by the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. There is no objection to its presentation and / or publication.