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Notes: Double-stranded RNA and long, flexuous, rod-shaped virus particles (1,200 times 12 nm) were recovered from mealybug wilt-affected pineapple (Ananas comosus) plants from plantations in Hawaii. A purification protocol was developed, and the virus was partially characterized. Based upon its morphology, the molecular weight of the coat protein, and analysis of double-stranded RNA, this virus is tentatively assigned to the type II closterovirus group.