Pegiviruses

species of virus

thumb|right|upright=1.5|Schematic drawing of a Pegivirus virion (cross section and side view) Pegivirus is a genus of single positive-stranded RNA viruses in the family Hepaciviridae. The name is a derived one: "Pe" stands for "persistent" and "g" is a reference to Hepatitis G, a former name of the C species. thumb|right|upright=1.5|Pegivirus genome