Vesicular stomatitis virus
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| Rhabdoviruses
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| Order: | Mononegavirales |
| Family: | Rhabdoviridae |
| Genus: | Vesiculovirus |
| Species: | Vesicular stomatitis Alagoas virus |
| Species: | Vesicular stomatitis Indiana virus |
| Species: | Vesicular stomatitis New Jersey virus |
|} Vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) is a virus in the family Rhabdoviridae, order Mononegavirales. The well-known Rabies virus belongs to the same family. VSV can infect insects and mammals. It is considered harmless to humans, and is a common laboratory virus used to study the properties of viruses in the Rhabdoviridae family, as well as to study virus evolution.
VSV is an arbovirus: Natural VSV infections encompass two steps, cytolytic infections of mammalian hosts and transmission by insects. In insects, infections are non-cytolytic persistent.
For further reading
The Lab-On-Site Project has more information about Vesicular Stomatitis Virus (http://www.labonsite.com/background.php?id=3).