TABLE 3.

New and renamed viruses infecting humans from the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses 2019 taxonomy release^a

Family	Genus	Species	Change	Description of pathogenesis	Reference(s) or source
Polyomaviridae	Alphapolyomavirus	Human polyomavirus 14	New	Found in healthy blood donors	19
Phenuiviridae	Phlebovirus	Alenquer phlebovirus	New	Amazon region of Brazil; rare human infections based on serosurvey	20
Phenuiviridae	Phlebovirus	Ntepes phlebovirus	New	Kenya; neutralizing antibodies found in ∼14% of human serum samples; isolated from sand flies	21
Phenuiviridae	Phlebovirus	Sicilian phlebovirus	New	Causes a self-limiting, acute, febrile disease; transmitted by sand fly	22
Phenuiviridae	Phlebovirus	Toscana phlebovirus	New	Causes meningitis, encephalitis; transmitted by sand fly	22
Phenuiviridae	Phlebovirus	Naples phlebovirus	Renamed; previous name, Sandfly fever Naples phlebovirus (species)	Causes myalgia, fever; transmitted by sand fly	22
Phenuiviridae	Bandavirus	Heartland bandavirus	Renamed; previous name, Heartland banyangvirus (species); Banyangvirus (genus)	Causes fever, malaise, myalgia, headache; transmitted by the Lone Star tick, Amblyomma americanum	https://talk.ictvonline.org/taxonomy/p/taxonomy-history?taxnode_id=201906607 (accessed 20 July 2020)
Picornaviridae	Cardiovirus	Cardiovirus D	New	Saffold virus; associated with gastrointestinal and respiratory illness in children	23, 24
Anelloviridae	Alphatorquevirus	Torque teno virus (TTV) (TTV1–TTV29)	New	TTV1 is the type species; high prevalence; no known direct or indirect link to pathogenicity	25
Anelloviridae	Betatorquevirus	Torque teno mini virus (TTMV) (TTMV1–TTMV12)	New	TTMV1 is the type species; no known direct or indirect link to pathogenicity	25
Reoviridae	Coltivirus	Colorado tick fever coltivirus	Renamed; previous name, Colorado tick fever virus (species)	Causes biphasic, febrile illness; transmitted by the wood tick Dermacentor andersoni	26

^aBased on data from the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) 2019 taxonomy release (https://talk.ictvonline.org/taxonomy/ [accessed 24 August 2020]), which predates the discovery and classification of SARS-CoV-2.