DNA virus
A DNA virus is a virus belonging to either Group I or Group II of the Baltimore classification system for viruses. It will therefore possess DNA as its genetic material and replicate using a DNA-dependent DNA polymerase. The nucleic acid is usually double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) but may also be single-stranded DNA (ssDNA). Single-stranded DNA is usually expanded to double-stranded in infected cells. Although Group VII viruses such as hepatitis B contain a DNA genome, they are not considered DNA viruses according to the Baltimore classification, but rather reverse transcribing viruses because they replicate through an RNA intermediate.
Group I - dsDNA viruses
- Order Caudovirales
- Family Myoviridae - includes Enterobacteria phage T4
- Family Podoviridae
- Family Siphoviridae - includes Enterobacteria phage λ
- Unassigned families
- Family Ascoviridae
- Family Adenoviridae
- Family Asfarviridae - includes African swine fever virus
- Family Baculoviridae
- Family Coccolithoviridae
- Family Corticoviridae
- Family Fuselloviridae
- Family Guttaviridae
- Family Hepadnavieus
- Family Herpesviridae - includes human herpesviruses, Varicella Zoster virus
- Family Iridoviridae
- Family Lipothrixviridae
- Family Nimaviridae
- Family Papillomaviridae
- Family Phycodnaviridae
- Family Plasmaviridae
- Family Polyomaviridae - includes Simian virus 40, JC virus
- Family Poxviridae - includes Cowpox virus, smallpox
- Family Rudiviridae
- Family Tectiviridae
- Unassigned genera
Group II - ssDNA viruses
- Unassigned bacteriophage families
- Family Inoviridae
- Family Microviridae
- Unassigned families
- Family Geminiviridae
- Family Circoviridae
- Family Nanoviridae
- Family Parvoviridae - includes Parvovirus B19
- Unassigned genera
See also
 | This virus-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |