Varicellovirus is a genus of viruses in the subfamily Alphaherpesvirinae of the family Orthoherpesviridae. Humans and other mammals serve as natural hosts, although only one member, Varicella zoster virus (human herpesvirus 3), infects humans, where it causes chickenpox and shingles. Other associated diseases include infectious bovine rhinotracheitis and infectious pustular vulvovaginitis, caused by bovine herpesvirus 1, and Aujeszky's disease, caused by SuHV-1, also known as pseudorabies virus. The virion is a double-stranded DNA virus with a layered structure: an envelope 120 to 200 nm across, a tegument, an icosahedral nucleocapsid 100 to 110 nm in diameter built from 162 capsomers, and a core on which the DNA is wrapped. Replication is nuclear, and the virus leaves the host cell by nuclear egress and budding.
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is a genus of viruses belonging to subfamily Alphaherpesvirinae, a member of family Orthoherpesviridae.
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Humans and other mammals serve as natural hosts.
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a member of family Orthoherpesviridae.
Child Taxon Of: Alphaherpesvirinae, Lead, subfamily
is a genus of viruses belonging to subfamily Alphaherpesvirinae, a member of family Orthoherpesviridae.
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