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Vesicular stomatitis virus

Vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) is a virus in the family Rhabdoviridae, order Mononegavirales. (The well-known Rabies virus belongs to the same family.) VSV can infect insects and mammals. It is considered harmless to humans, and is a common laboratory virus used to study the properties of viruses in the Rhabdoviridae family, as well as to study virus evolution.

VSV is an arbovirus: Natural VSV infections encompass two steps, cytolytic infections of mammalian hosts and transmission by insects. In insects, infections are non-cytolytic persistent.

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