Virus nomenclature below the species level: A standardized nomenclature for natural variants of viruses assigned to the family Filoviridae

Archives of Virology

Volumn 158, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 301-311

  Kuhn, Jens H ^a   Bao, Yiming ^b   Bavari, Sina ^c   Becker, Stephan ^d   Bradfute, Steven ^e   Brister, J Rodney ^b   Bukreyev, Alexander A ^f   Chandran, Kartik ^g   Davey, Robert A ^h   Dolnik, Olga ^d   Dye, John M ^c   Enterlein, Sven ⁱ   Hensley, Lisa E ^j   Honko, Anna N ^c   Jahrling, Peter B ^a   Johnson, Karl M ^k   Kobinger, Gary ^l   Leroy, Eric M ^m   Lever, Mark S ⁿ   Mühlberger, Elke ^o   Netesov, Sergey V ^p   Olinger, Gene G ^c   Palacios, Gustavo ^c   Patterson, Jean L ^h   Paweska, Janusz T ^q   Pitt, Louise ^c   Radoshitzky, Sheli R ^c   Saphire, Erica Ollmann ^r   Smither, Sophie J ⁿ   Swanepoel, Robert ^w   Towner, Jonathan S ^s   van der Groen, Guido ^t   Volchkov, Viktor E ^u   Wahl Jensen, Victoria ^a   Warren, Travis K ^c   Weidmann, Manfred ^v   Nichol, Stuart T ^s   more..

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNITED STATES ARMY MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^d PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

^g ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h SOUTHWEST FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

ⁱ Integrated BioTherapeutics Inc   (United States)

^j Federal Drug Administration   (United States)

^k Public Health Agency of Canada ^*

^l PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^m CENTRE INTERNATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉDICALES DE FRANCEVILLE   (Gabon)

ⁿ DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^o Boston University Medical Campus   (United States)

^p NOVOSIBIRSK STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^q NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNICABLE DISEASES   (South Africa)

^r SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^s NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^t INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^u UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^v UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^w UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EBOLA VIRUS; FILOVIRIDAE; HOMO SAPIENS; MARBURGVIRUS; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE; ROTAVIRUS;

EID: 84872261364     PISSN: 03048608     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00705-012-1454-0     Document Type: Article

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