How did you choose the names for the viruses?
Wherever possible, virus names are given according to the recommendations described in recent proposal
or reports of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV), currently
the Eighth Report:
Virus Taxonomy: Classification and Nomenclature of Viruses. Eighth Report of the
International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (book). Ed.C.M.
Fauquet, M.A. Mayo, J. Maniloff, D.J., U. Desselberger and L.A. Ball
(2005). Academic Press, San Diego
In other cases, when expert advice are not available, virus names are created de novo by the NCBI Taxonomy group.
Revised: June 8, 2006