What this page does and does not yet contain. This is the taxonomy pass. Every virus below carries its ICTV classification and the evidence that it infects people. Vaccines, antivirals, antibodies and disease-burden figures have not been searched yet — that is why the last column says so, rather than being blank or saying “none”. An empty cell would claim that nothing exists; this claims only that nobody has looked.
Taxonomy is copied by script from the ICTV Virus Metadata Resource and is never hand-edited. How a virus qualifies for this list, and which viruses are deliberately left out, is on the methods page.
Where this family sits
Ranks above family are shared by every member, copied from ICTV MSL41.v1 / VMR_MSL41.v1.20260729.xlsx.
| Realm | Riboviria |
|---|---|
| Kingdom | Orthornavirae |
| Phylum | Pisuviricota |
| Class | Pisoniviricetes |
| Order | Nidovirales |
| Family | Coronaviridae |
Genome type in this family: IV — (+)ssRNA.
Members with evidence of human infection
6 of this family’s species qualify for the index. Species with no human sequence evidence, and the commensal families left out altogether, are explained on the methods page.
| Virus | Family | Baltimore class | ICTV species | Human infection | Countermeasures |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Human coronavirus 229EHCoV_229E; Alphacoronavirus chicagoense | Coronaviridae | IV — (+)ssRNA | Alphacoronavirus chicagoense | Human infection recorded; pattern not classified | Not searched yet |
| Human coronavirus HKU1HCoV_HKU1; Betacoronavirus hongkongense | Coronaviridae | IV — (+)ssRNA | Betacoronavirus hongkongense | Human infection recorded; pattern not classified | Not searched yet |
| Human coronavirus NL63HCoV_NL63; Alphacoronavirus amsterdamense | Coronaviridae | IV — (+)ssRNA | Alphacoronavirus amsterdamense | Human infection recorded; pattern not classified | Not searched yet |
| Human coronavirus OC43HCoV_OC43; Betacoronavirus gravedinis | Coronaviridae | IV — (+)ssRNA | Betacoronavirus gravedinis | Human infection recorded; pattern not classified | Not searched yet |
| Middle East respiratory syndrome-related coronavirusMERS-CoV; Betacoronavirus cameli | Coronaviridae | IV — (+)ssRNA | Betacoronavirus cameli | Human infection recorded; pattern not classified | Not searched yet |
| SARS-related coronavirus (SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2)SARS-CoV; SARS-CoV-2; SARSr-CoV; severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus | Coronaviridae | IV — (+)ssRNA | Betacoronavirus pandemicum | Human infection recorded; pattern not classified | Vaccine: Approved |
Countermeasures across this family
Vaccines, antivirals and antibodies have not been searched for this family yet. When they are, this section will carry the family-level summary that makes broad-spectrum candidates visible. It is empty because the work is outstanding, not because nothing exists.