''Equine pegivirus'' (EPgV) is a

virus A virus is a submicroscopic infectious agent that replicates only inside the living cells of an organism. Viruses infect all life forms, from animals and plants to microorganisms, including bacteria and archaea. Since Dmitri Ivanovsky's 1 ...

in the genus ''

Pegivirus ''Pegivirus'' is the approved name for a genus of single positive-stranded RNA viruses in the family ''Flaviviridae''. The name is a derived one: "Pe" stands for "persistent" and "g" is a reference to Hepatitis G, a former name of the ''C'' sp ...

'' of the family '' Flaviviridae''. It was discovered in 2013 in blood of horses and causes chronic infections. EPgV is not known to be responsible for any disease in horses. In a serosurvey of EPgV and related viruses, antibodies to EPgV were detected in the majority of horses, indicating a high prevalence in them.

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{{Taxonbar, from=Q19904089 Pegiviruses