Continuing progress towards a unified nomenclature for the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza viruses: Divergence of clade 2·2 viruses

Influenza and other Respiratory Viruses

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 59-62

  Donis, Ruben O ^a   Smith, Gavin ^b   Brown, Ian H ^c   Capua, Ilaria ^d   Cattoli, Giovanni ^d   Chen, Hualan ^e   Cox, Nancy ^a   Davis, C Todd ^a   Fouchier, Ron A M ^f   Garten, Rebecca ^a   Guan, Yi ^g   Hay, Alan ^h   Kawaoka, Yoshihiro ^i,j   Mackenzie, John ^k   McCauley, John ^h   Mumford, Elizabeth ^l   Olsen, Christopher ⁱ   Perdue, Michael L ^m   Russell, Colin A ⁿ   Smith, Catherine ^a   Smith, Derek ⁿ   Smith, Gavin J D ^g   Shu, Yuelong ^o   Tashiro, Masato ^p   Vijaykrishna, Dhanasekaran ^g   Webster, Robert ^q   more..

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^d Instituto Zooprpfilattico Sperimenttale delle Venezie   (Italy)

^e INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^f ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^g UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^h NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^k CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^l WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^m U S DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^o Chinese Center for Diseases Control and Prevention   (China)

^p NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^q StJude Children's Hospital   (United States)

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Author keywords

H5N1; Highly pathogenic avian influenza; Molecular epidemiology; Nomenclature; Phylogenetics; Viral evolution

Indexed keywords

BAYES THEOREM; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H5N1; LETTER; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NOMENCLATURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STANDARDIZATION; VIRUS CLASSIFICATION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS MORPHOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H5N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA IN BIRDS; PHYLOGENY; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 62149091765     PISSN: 17502640     EISSN: 17502659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1750-2659.2009.00078.x     Document Type: Letter

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