Hepacivirus

Hepacivirus
	Hepacivirus structure and genome
Virus classification
(unranked):	Virus
Realm:	Riboviria
Kingdom:	Orthornavirae
Phylum:	Kitrinoviricota
Class:	Flasuviricetes
Order:	Amarillovirales
Family:	Flaviviridae
Genus:	Hepacivirus
Synonyms
	Hepatitis C-like viruses; Hepatitis virus C group;

Hepacivirus is a genus of positive-strand RNA viruses in the family Flaviviridae.^[3] The hepatitis C virus (HCV), in species Hepacivirus C, infects humans and is associated with hepatitis and hepatocellular carcinoma.^[3]^[4] There are fourteen species in the genus which infect a range of other vertebrate.^[3]

^ Pringle, C. R. (1996). "Virus Taxonomy 1996 - A Bulletin from the Xth International Congress of Virology in Jerusalem" (PDF). Archives of Virology. 141 (11): 2251–6. doi:10.1007/BF01718231. ISSN 1432-8798. OCLC 76349762. PMC 7086844. PMID 8992952. Retrieved 13 March 2019. To name the genus comprising the hepatitis C-like viruses as the genus Hepacivirus.
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