THE FAMILY HERPESVIRIDAE - AN UPDATE
THE FAMILY HERPESVIRIDAE - AN UPDATE
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DOI:
10.1007/bf01317276
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发表时间:
1992-01-01
影响因子:
2.7
通讯作者:
STUDDERT, MJ
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作者:
ROIZMANN, B;DESROSIERS, RC;STUDDERT, MJ
More than 10 years have elapsed since the first report of the International Committee for the Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) Herpesvirus Study Group [-187]. In that publication the Study Group designated Herpesviridae as the name of the herpesvirus family, erected three subfamilies, the Alphaherpesvirinae, Betaherpesvirinae, and Gammaherpesvirinae, and provided guidelines for the classification of herpesviruses into these subfamilies. Since that publication, the ICTV has approved the recommendation of previous Herpesvirus Study Groups to erect several genera. More important from the point of view of taxonomy and classification of herpesviruses, considerable amounts of new information regarding herpesviruses have accumulated in the past 10 years. Thus,(a) a large number of new herpesviruses has been discovered,(b) a few herpesviruses turned out to be contaminants, most likely derived from calf serum containing a bovine herpesvirus,(c) several herpesvirus genomes have been sequenced,(d) many highly conserved genes have been identified both within the family and in the individual subfamilies, and (e) we have a much better understanding at least of the problems facing the task of classifying herpesviruses. This paper updates the 1981 report.