- Tioman virus
Taxobox
name = "PAGENAME"
virus_group = v
ordo = "Mononegavirales "
familia = "Paramyxoviridae "
genus = "Not assigned"
species = "Tioman virus"Tioman virus is a
paramyxovirus first isolated from the urine of islandfruit bat s ("Pteropus hypomelanus") onTioman Island ,Malaysia in 2000. Thevirus was discovered during efforts to identify the natural host ofNipah virus which was responsible for a large outbreak of encephalitic illness in humans and pigs in Malaysia andSingapore in 1998-99.Tioman virus is antigenically related to
Menangle virus which is also harboured by Pteropid fruit bats and caused an outbreak of foetal deformities in pigs inAustralia in 1997.Although there is no evidence that Tioman virus can cause illness in humans or animals, its close relationship to other disease-causing paramyxoviruses (
Hendra virus , Nipah virus, Menangle virus) suggests the possibility that it may cause disease upon crossing the species barrier. The recent emergence of a number ofzoonotic bat-borne viruses in the Asia-Pacific region also demonstrates that conditions are increasingly favouring this type of event.References
Chua, KW, Wang, L, Lam, SK, Crameri, G, Yu, M, Wise, T, Boyle, D, Hyatt, AD, Eaton, BT (2001). Tioman virus, a novel paramyxovirus isolated from fruit bats in Malaysia. "Virology" 283, 215–229.
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