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Resolving the Orthoflavivirus encephalitidis Paraphyly by Species Splitting

Year: 2026

Type: article

Abstract: Our communication summarizes the recent changes in the paraphyletic species Orthoflavivirus encephalitidis. The paraphyly arises due to louping-ill virus (LIV), which is genetically closer to the European subtype of tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV). To maintain a concept of monophyly, we have split Orthoflavivirus encephalitidis into two monophyletic species: Orthoflavivirus zilberi (after Lev A. Zilber—the head of the expedition that identified and characterized TBEV in the Soviet Far East in 1937) and Orthoflavivirus neudoerflense, named after Neudörfl, a town in Austria where the reference strain Neudoerfl was first isolated. Also, to remove the resulting ambiguity in the virus name “tick-borne encephalitis virus”, we have proposed new names—Asian TBEV (TBEV-AS) for Orthoflavivirus zilberi, and European TBEV (TBEV-EU) for Orthoflavivirus neudoerflense.

Source: Taxonomy

DOI: 10.3390/taxonomy6030052

Authors: Artem Bondaryuk, Yurij Bukin

Institutions: Irkutsk Antiplague Research Institute of Siberia and Far East, Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Limnological Institute

Language: English

Topic: Mosquito-borne diseases and control

Subfield: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $1,207

OpenAlex ID: W7203915705

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