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What are the types of animal viruses?
Animal viruses are divided into three groups: DNA viruses (Group I and II), RNA viruses (Group III, IV, and V), and RT viruses (Group VI and VII).
What are 4 examples of viral diseases?
Some of the most common viral infections include:
- Common cold.
- Influenza (flu)
- Herpes.
- Chickenpox.
- Mumps.
- Human papillomavirus (HPV)
- Measles.
- Rubella.
What causes animal disease?
Direct causes of disease are: (1) bacteria, (2) viruses, (3) parasites, (4) fungi, (5) nutritional deficiencies, (6) chemical poisons, and (7) unknown causes. Infectious diseases are the greatest threat to livestock health. They are caused by bacteria, viruses, rickettsia and fungi.
What are the 6 classes of animal viruses?
Classification
- Group I: double-stranded DNA viruses.
- Group II: single-stranded DNA viruses.
- Group III: double-stranded RNA viruses.
- Group IV: positive sense single-stranded RNA viruses.
- Group V: negative sense single-stranded RNA viruses.
- Group VI: single-stranded RNA viruses with a DNA intermediate.
What are the 10 viral diseases?
Viral Diseases
- Chickenpox.
- Herpes.
- Influenza.
- AIDS.
- Mumps.
- Measles.
- Viral Hepatitis.
How are diseases spread in animals?
These organisms can be passed on in a number of ways. Contact with the animal itself is one way that disease is spread, but other ways include contact with urine, feces, or respiratory secretions of an infected animal, or contact with other items in the animal’s environment.
What is largest animal virus?
Mimivirus is the largest and most complex virus known.
Which is the largest animal virus?
Are viruses animals?
Viruses occupy a special taxonomic position: they are not plants, animals, or prokaryotic bacteria (single-cell organisms without defined nuclei), and they are generally placed in their own kingdom.
Which animals carry the most diseases?
Virus: Bats Are the Number-One Carriers of Disease | Time.
How do viral diseases affect animals?
Virus Viral diseases cause the animal to be sick by preventing certain cells in the body from functioning properly 25. Virus More difficult to treat than bacterial diseases Antibiotics are not effective against viral infections 26. Viral diseases Foot and mouth disease Influenza Hog cholera Pseudorabies
What are the characteristics of animal viruses?
ANIMAL VIRUSES Animal viruses are self replicating, intracellular parasites that completely rely on host animal cell for reproduction. They use the host’s cellular components to replicate, then leaves the host cell to infect other cells. 2.
What are infectious diseases in animals?
Infectious diseases Caused by microorganisms that invade the animal’s body Usually contagious diseases that the animal can pass to another animal 6. Bacteria Live in a wide range of conditions Live on and in the bodies of all animals More numerous than the cells of the body
What is the structure of a viral genome?
Capsid is composed of 60 copies of 4 structiural protein . Viral genome are linear 7.1-8.9 kb size Diseases: poliovirus (polio) Rihinovirus( common cold) Hepatitis A virus (hepatitis A) 12. 3.Togavirus •Envelop consists of 80 trimer spikes . The spikes consists of glycoprotein that help in attachment protein to receptor of host cell membrane.