Introduction to the ICTV Online Report

Virus Taxonomy

Classification and Nomenclature of Viruses

Online (10^th) Report
of the
International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses

Editors

Elliot J. Lefkowitz, Michael J. Adams, Andrew J. Davison, Stuart G. Siddell, and Peter Simmonds

Managing editor: Donald Smith; Technical Editor: Richard Orton

Associate Editors

Balázs Harrach, Nick J. Knowles, Andrew M. Kropinski, Max Nibert, Hélène Sanfaçon

International Union of Microbiological Societies
Virology Division

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