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Improved clarity of meaning from the use of both formal species names and common (vernacular) virus names in virological literature∗ M. A. Drebot1 , E. Henchal2 , B. Hjelle3 , J. W. LeDuc4 , P. M. Repik5 , J. T. Roehrig6 , C. S. Schmaljohn2 , R. E. Shope7 , R. B. Tesh7 , S. C. Weaver7 , and C. H. Calisher8 1Viral
Zoonoses, Zoonotic Diseases and Special Pathogens, National Microbiology Laboratory, Canadian Science Centre for Human and Animal Health, Population and Public Health Branch, Winnipeg, Canada 2 Department of Molecular Virology, Virology Division USAMRIID, Ft. Detrick, Frederick, Maryland, U.S.A. 3 Infectious Diseases and Inflammation Program, Departments of Pathology, Biology, and Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A. 4 Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A. 5Virology Branch, Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.A. 6 Division of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, Colorado, U.S.A. 7 Center for Tropical Diseases, Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, U.S.A. 8Arthropod-borne and Infectious Diseases Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, U.S.A. Received September 20, 2002; accepted October 21, 2002 c Springer-Verlag 2002 Published online December, 2002
During the past 40 years, the Subcommittee on InterRelationships Among Catalogued Arboviruses (SIRACA), a subdivision of the American Committee on Arthropod-borne Viruses, has attempted to serve the community of arbovirologists and the general community of virologists in regards to the classification and importance of arboviruses and other viruses. At first, SIRACA evaluated only antigenic (serologic) relationships among arboviruses. During the past two decades we have
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included genetic and genomic comparisons in order to determine what has been done, where viruses belong taxonomically, and what remains to be done. Current taxonomic placements of most arboviruses originated with our deliberations. For more than 35 years the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV; a committee of the Virology Division of the International Union of Microbiology Societies; IUMS) has been attempting to “introduce some order into the bewildering variety of viruses” [14]; it has done that [18]. However, for some working virologists, who have taken the ICTV pronouncements out of context, the resulting taxonomy is bewildering. The principal responsibility
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