Hepadnaviridae

Hepadnaviridae is a family of viruses. Humans, apes, and birds serve as natural hosts. The family contains five genera. Its best-known member is hepatitis B virus. Diseases associated with this family include: liver infections, such as hepatitis, hepatocellular carcinomas (chronic infections), and cirrhosis. It is the sole accepted family in the order Blubervirales.

In the Vinony graph

Vinony's link graph records 523 inbound references to Hepadnaviridae, and connects out to Adnaviria, Anelloviridae and DNA virus.

Vinony files it under Hepadnaviridae and Virus families.

Vinony links it to 23 Wikipedia language editions.

Species

FAMILY

KingdomViruses
PhylumArtverviricota
ClassRevtraviricetes
OrderBlubervirales
FamilyHepadnaviridae

Observations recorded2,892

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Research

36,732 papers

ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Hepadnaviridae.The Journal of general virology · 2020
Hepatitis B Virus-Associated Hepatocellular Carcinoma.Viruses · 2022
Structure and function of the encapsidation signal of hepadnaviridae.Journal of viral hepatitis · 1998
Hepatitis B Virus Nucleocapsid Assembly.Journal of molecular biology · 2025
Early mesozoic coexistence of amniotes and hepadnaviridae.PLoS genetics · 2014

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: taxon
Parent taxon: virus
Image: Hepatitis B virus 01.jpg

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taxon name: Hepadnaviridae
taxon rank: family
topic's main category: Category:Hepadnaviridae
Commons category: Hepadnaviridae
taxon common name: Hepatitis viruses group
ICTV virus genome composition: double-stranded DNA reverse transcriptase virus

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