Table 1. Categories of neurotropic viruses.

Viral family	Virus	Genome	Reference
dsDNA: Double strand DNA. ssRNA: Single strand RNA. +: Positive-sense. –: Negative-sense.
Herpesviridae	Herpes simplex virus-1, HSV-1	dsDNA	Bradshaw & Venkatesan, 2016; Whitley, 2015
	Varicella zoster virus, VZV	dsDNA	Nagel et al., 2020
	Cytomegalovirus, CMV	dsDNA	Cheeran et al., 2009
	Human herpes virus 6, HHV-6	dsDNA	Agut et al., 2015; Kimberlin & Whitley, 1998
	Epstein-Barr virus, EBV	dsDNA	Houen et al., 2020; Tselis, 2014
	Pseudorabies virus, PRV	dsDNA	Liu et al., 2021
Flaviviridae	Japanese encephalitis virus, JEV	+ ssRNA	Redant et al., 2020
	West Nile virus, WNV	+ ssRNA	Klein, 2021; Sips et al., 2012
	Zika virus, ZIKV	+ ssRNA	Christian et al., 2019; Klein, 2021; White et al., 2016
	Tickborne encephalitis virus, TBEV	+ ssRNA	Cvjetković et al., 2016; Kubinski et al., 2020
	Dengue virus, DV	+ ssRNA	Trivedi & Chakravarty, 2022; Verma et al., 2011
	St Louis encephalitis virus, SLEV	+ ssRNA	Marques et al., 2017
Picornaviridae	Poliovirus, PV	+ ssRNA	Brownell et al., 2015; Verboon-Maciolek et al., 2008
	Enterovirus 71, EV71	+ ssRNA	Solomon et al., 2010
	Human parechovirus, HPeV	+ ssRNA	Verboon-Maciolek et al., 2008
	Coxsackievirus A16, CV-A16	+ ssRNA	Hooi et al., 2020
Rhabdoviridae	Rabies virus, RABV	– ssRNA	Hemachudha et al., 2013
	Vesicular stomatitis virus, VSV	– ssRNA	Beier et al., 2011; Sabin & Olitsky, 1937
Retroviridae	Human immunodeficiency virus, HIV	+ ssRNA	González-Scarano & Martín-García, 2005
	Human T cell lymphotropic virus, HTLV	+ ssRNA	Cabre et al., 2000
Polyomaviridae	John Cunningham virus, JCV	dsDNA	Ferenczy et al., 2012
Orthomyxoviridae	Influenza A virus	Segmented - RNA	Takahashi et al., 1995; van Riel et al., 2015
Paramyxoviridae	Measles virus	– ssRNA	Fisher et al., 2015
	Mumps virus, MuV	– ssRNA	Rubin et al., 1998
Togaviridae	Chikungunya virus, CHIKV	+ ssRNA	Das et al., 2015; Klein, 2021
	Equine encephalitis virus, EEV	+ ssRNA	Ludlow2016
	Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus, VEEV	+ ssRNA	Ludlow et al., 2016
	Western equine encephalitis virus, WEEV	+ ssRNA	Ludlow2016
	Eastern equine encephalitis virus, EEEV	+ ssRNA	Ludlow et al., 2016
Bornaviridae	Bornavirus	– ssRNA	Jordan & Ian Lipkin, 2001
Bunyaviridae	La Crosse virus, LCV	Segmented – RNA	McJunkin et al., 2001
	Rift Valley fever virus, RVFV	Segmented – RNA	Albe et al., 2019
	Toscana virus, TOSV	Segmented – RNA	Gori Savellini et al., 2019
Coronaviridae	Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, SARS-CoV-2	+ ssRNA	Erickson et al., 2021; Meinhardt et al., 2021