Flexal virus

Flexal virus or FLEV (and previously known by the laboratory code BeAn 293022) is a mammarenavirus: an arenavirus with a mammalian host.^[2] It was first found in semiaquatic rodents of the genus Oryzomys in tropical forest in the Pará area of Brazil.^[3]

Flexal virus
Virus classification
(unranked):	Virus
Realm:	Riboviria
Kingdom:	Orthornavirae
Phylum:	Negarnaviricota
Class:	Bunyaviricetes
Order:	Hareavirales
Family:	Arenaviridae
Genus:	Mammarenavirus
Species:	Mammarenavirus flexalense
Synonyms[1]
Flexal mammarenavirus

It is a member of Clade A of the Tacaribe (or "New World") serocomplex of the family Arenaviridae.^[4] Laboratory workers infected by Flexal virus have exhibited febrile illness.^[4]Flexal virus is listed as a UN 2814 Category A infectious substance.^[5]