Guide to the correct use of filoviral nomenclature

Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 411, Issue , 2017, Pages 447-460

  Kuhn, Jens H ^a  

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

Author keywords

Cuevavirus; Ebola; Ebola virus; Filoviridae; Filovirus; ICTV; ICVCN; International code of virus classification and nomenclature; International committee on taxonomy of viruses; Marburg virus; Marburgvirus; Species; Virus classification; Virus nomenclature; Virus taxonomy

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; EBOLAVIRUS; FILOVIRUS; GENE SEQUENCE; MARBURGVIRUS; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; PNEUMOVIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHABDOVIRIDAE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TAXONOMY; VIROLOGY; VIRUS CLASSIFICATION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS NOMENCLATURE; CLASSIFICATION; FILOVIRIDAE; NOMENCLATURE;

EBOLAVIRUS; FILOVIRIDAE; MARBURGVIRUS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 85039436438     PISSN: 0070217X     EISSN: 21969965     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/82_2017_7     Document Type: Chapter

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