''White bream virus'' is a species of virus. It is the sole species in the subgenus ''Blicbavirus'', which is in the genus ''

Bafinivirus ''Bafinivirus'' is a genus in the subfamily ''Piscanivirinae''. It contains two species, one being ''White bream virus'' (WBV) which was isolated from white bream in Germany.Veterinary Microbiology. Edited by D. Scott McVey, Melissa Kennedy, M.M. ...

''. It was first isolated from

white bream ''Blicca bjoerkna'', alternatively called the white bream or the silver bream, is a European species of freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae. Distribution ''Blicca bjoerkna'' is distributed across most of Europe and in adjacent Western Asi ...

(''Blicca bjoerkna'') in Germany. It is a

bacilliform A bacillus (), also called a bacilliform bacterium or often just a rod (when the context makes the sense clear), is a rod-shaped bacterium or archaeon. Bacilli are found in many different taxonomic groups of bacteria. However, the name ''Bacillu ...

(rod-shaped)

positive-sense single-stranded RNA virus Positive-strand RNA viruses (+ssRNA viruses) are a group of related viruses that have positive-sense, single-stranded genomes made of ribonucleic acid. The positive-sense genome can act as messenger RNA (mRNA) and can be directly translated into ...

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Nidovirales Zoonoses {{virus-stub