National Cancer Institute Thesaurus

Last uploaded: February 23, 2024
Preferred Name

Filoviridae
Synonyms

Filoviridae

FILOVIRIDAE

Filovirus

Definitions

A family of filamentous viruses with helical capsids and glycoprotein projections on their surface. The virus may have a branched morphology of varying length. The genome is composed of a linear single-strand of negative sense RNA. Filoviridae infect primates, pigs and bats in nature and are a causitive agent of viral hemorrhagic fevers in humans and primates.

ID

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C112031

ALT_DEFINITION

Any viral organism that can be assigned to the family Filoviridae.

code

C112031

Concept_In_Subset

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C66830

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C61410

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C85491

Contributing_Source

CDISC

DEFINITION

A family of filamentous viruses with helical capsids and glycoprotein projections on their surface. The virus may have a branched morphology of varying length. The genome is composed of a linear single-strand of negative sense RNA. Filoviridae infect primates, pigs and bats in nature and are a causitive agent of viral hemorrhagic fevers in humans and primates.

FULL_SYN

Filoviridae

FILOVIRIDAE

Filovirus

label

Filoviridae

NCBI_Taxon_ID

11266

Preferred_Name

Filoviridae

prefixIRI

Thesaurus:C112031

Semantic_Type

Virus

UMLS_CUI

C0085150

subClassOf

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C14346

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