Families

Question 1

What family is Yellow fever virus?

Answer 1

Flavivirus

Question 2

What type of viruses are flavivirus’s?

Answer 2

+sense ssRNA

Question 3

What sort of virus is JC/BK

Answer 3

Non-enveloped dsDNA beta-polyomavirus (VP1, VP2, VP3, large and small T antigens)

Question 4

What type of virus are Enteroviruses

Answer 4

Picornavirus

Non-enveloped ds +sense RNA

Question 5

What family are influenza viruses in?

Answer 5

Orthomyxoviridae

Question 6

Name the 7 human coronaviruses, and what type of virus? (Baltimore)

Answer 6

Seasonal = 229E, HKU1, NL63, OC43

MERS, OG SARS, SARS-CoV-2

Enveloped +ssRNA

Question 7

What family is TBEV in?

Answer 7

Flavivirus

Question 8

What virus family is RSV?

Answer 8

Pneumoviridae

Question 9

Which type of herpes virus (alpha, beta, gamma) are the 8 human herpes viruses?

Answer 9

Alpha - HSV-1/2, VZV
Beta - CMV, HHV-7/8
Gamma - EBV, HHV-8 (both oncoviruses)

Question 10

Name the seven oncogenic viruses

Answer 10

EBV
HHV-8
HTLV-1
HBV
HCV
HPV
MCPyV (Merkel cell polyomavirus)