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Reston virus (RESTV) is one of five known viruses within the genus ''Ebolavirus''. Reston virus causes Ebola virus disease in non-human primates; unlike the other four ebolaviruses, it is not known to cause disease in humans, but has caused asymptomatic infections.〔(【引用サイトリンク】first1=Anna )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/about.html )〕〔http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/outbreaks/history/chronology.html〕 Reston virus was first described in 1990 as a new "strain" of Ebola virus (EBOV). It is the single member of the species ''Reston ebolavirus'', which is included into the genus ''Ebolavirus'', family ''Filoviridae'', order ''Mononegavirales''. Reston virus is named after Reston, Virginia, US, where the virus was first discovered. RESTV was discovered in crab-eating macaques from Hazleton Laboratories (now Covance) in 1989. This attracted significant media attention due to the proximity of Reston to the Washington, DC, metro area and the lethality of a closely related Ebola virus. Despite its status as a level-4 organism, Reston virus is non-pathogenic to humans, though hazardous to monkeys; the perception of its lethality was compounded by the monkey's coinfection with Simian hemorrhagic fever virus (SHFV). ==Pronunciation and nomenclature== Reston virus is pronounced ‘rɛstən vɑɪrəs (IPA) or res-tuhn vahy-ruhs in English phonetic notation.〔 According to the rules for taxon naming established by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV), the name Reston virus is always to be capitalized, but is never italicized, and may be abbreviated (with RESTV being the official abbreviation). Reston virus was first introduced as a new "strain" of Ebola virus in 1990.〔 In 2000, it received the designation Reston Ebola virus and in 2002 the name was changed to Reston ebolavirus. Previous abbreviations for the virus were EBOV-R (for Ebola virus Reston) and most recently REBOV (for Reston Ebola virus or Reston ebolavirus). The virus received its current designation in 2010, when it was renamed Reston virus (RESTV).〔 A virus of the species ''Reston ebolavirus'' is a Reston virus (RESTV) if it has the properties of Reston ebolaviruses and if its genome diverges from that of the prototype Reston virus, Reston virus variant Pennsylvania (RESTV/Pen), by ≤10% at the nucleotide level.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Reston virus」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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