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Rustrela virus is the third member of the genus Rubivirus.

Etymology
Scientists discovered Rustrela in acutely encephalitic marsupial animals- a donkey, a capybara, and a kangaroo- in a zoo in Germany and wild yellow-necked field mice in the zoo and around the zoo. The virus can species jump and interestingly infects placental and marsupial animals.

Taxonomy

 * Group: ssRNA+
 * Order: Hepelivirales
 * Family: Matonaviridae
 * Genus: Rubivirus

Structure
Rustrela viruses have the same genomic structure as Rubella virus. Rustrela has a few amino acid differences in the protein which binds to host cells. There are four putative B cell epitopes in the fusion (E1) protein of rustrela that are highly conserved with Rubella and Ruhugu.