Abbreviations for vertebrate virus species names.
Abbreviations for vertebrate virus species names.
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DOI：
10.1007/s007050050711
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发表时间：
1999
影响因子：
2.7
通讯作者：
Pringle CR
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作者：
Fauquet CM;Pringle CR
植物病毒学家已主动开发病毒名称缩写的标准化系统，以应对与植物病毒命名相关的特殊问题[1-3]。现在有一个令人信服的理由将这些努力扩展到所有病毒，无论其宿主生物体如何。人们对病毒多样性的认识不断增强，并且越来越依赖电子数据库中的信息存储，因此需要对缩写进行标准化以避免歧义。从数据库中准确恢复信息取决于病毒名称的唯一缩写的存在。例如，物种名称丙型肝炎病毒在论文标题中经常缩写为 HCV，目前 Medline 数据库中大约 20% 的出版物只能使用缩写而不是病毒名称来访问。幸运的是，在这种情况下没有明显的重叠。在其他情况下，可能会出现混乱。例如，缩写RSV不是唯一的，数据库搜索将恢复有关劳斯肉瘤病毒、水稻条纹病毒、人呼吸道合胞病毒和牛呼吸道合胞病毒的论文。国际病毒分类委员会 (ICTV) 在其第七次报告 [4] 中基于历史优先性建议对劳斯肉瘤病毒使用 RSV，对人和牛呼吸道合胞病毒分别使用 HuRSV 和 BRSV。尽管与水稻条纹病毒的重叠问题仍未解决，但实际上它很少引起混乱。然而，如果不存在重叠就更好了。ICTV 目前列出了大约 4,000 个病毒名称，如果没有一些约定，为每种病毒设计独特的缩写将变得越来越困难。这份推荐的脊椎动物病毒物种名称缩写列表将作为参考文件发布，以减少提出新缩写时出现重复的风险。
Plant virologists have taken the initiative in the development of a standardized system of abbreviation of virus names in response to the particular problems associated with the naming of plant viruses [1–3]. There is now a compelling case for extending these efforts to embrace all viruses irrespective of their host organisms. Increasing awareness of the diversity of viruses and greater reliance on storage of information in electronic databases call for standardization of abbreviations to avoid ambiguity. The accurate recovery of information from databases is dependent on the existence of unique abbreviations for virus names. For example, the species name Hepatitis C virus is often abbreviated to HCV in the titles of papers and currently approximately 20% of the publications in the Medline database can only be accessed using the abbreviation rather than the virus name. Fortunately in this case there is no significant overlap. In other cases there can be confusion. For example, the abbreviation RSV is not unique and a database search will recover papers on Rous sarcoma virus, Rice stripe virus, Human respiratory syncytial virus and Bovine respiratory syncytial virus. In its 7th Report [4] the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) has recommended the use of RSV for Rous sarcoma virus on grounds of historical priority, and HuRSV and BRSV for human and bovine respiratory syncytial viruses respectively. Although the overlap with Rice stripe virus remains unresolved, in practice it causes little confusion. However, it would be better if the overlap did not exist.There are now some 4,000 virus names listed by the ICTV and without some conventions it will become increasingly difficult to devise unique abbreviations for every virus. This list of receoomended abbreviations for vertebrate virus species names is being published as a reference document to diminish the risk of duplication when new abbreviations are proposed.