Historical Perspective. What Constitutes Discovery (of a New Virus)?

Advances in Virus Research

Volumn 95, Issue , 2016, Pages 197-220

  Murphy, F A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Credit for discovery; Discoveries and discoverers; Discovery of new viruses; Global discovery database; Naming of viruses; Proof of causation; Ultrafiltration

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; DATA BASE; EBOLAVIRUS; HISTORY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; INVENTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MANPOWER; MURRAY VALLEY ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; NAIROVIRUS; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SIN NOMBRE VIRUS; SMALLPOX VIRUS; ULTRAFILTRATION; UTILIZATION; VACCINIA VIRUS; VIROLOGY; YELLOW FEVER VIRUS;

ANIMALS; DATABASES AS TOPIC; EBOLAVIRUS; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS, MURRAY VALLEY; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER VIRUS, CRIMEAN-CONGO; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HIV-1; HUMANS; INVENTIONS; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE; SIN NOMBRE VIRUS; ULTRAFILTRATION; VACCINIA VIRUS; VARIOLA VIRUS; VIROLOGY; YELLOW FEVER VIRUS;

EID: 84962219991     PISSN: 00653527     EISSN: 15578399     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/bs.aivir.2016.02.003     Document Type: Chapter

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