On virus nomenclature

On Rickettsia Nomenclature

his issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases contains 2 independent reports of Rickettsia sibirica infections in Spain and Portugal. The authors identify the agent both as a subspecies (1) and as a strain (2). This inconsistency refl ects a lack of consensus regarding the use of subspe-cies designations for Rickettsia taxa, so appropriate designation of these pathogens as strains or subspecies rem...

Proposal for a uniform nomenclature for simian virus 40 mutants.

A uniform nomenclature for simian virus 40 mutants has been developed. This nomenclature should evolve into a comprehensive nomenclature as new mutants and information are obtained. Hopefully, his nomenclature will also stimulate the development of a comprehensive nomenclature for all animal virus mutants.

Nomenclature standardization for 'large pore size' virus-retentive filters.

Nomenclature: terminology on the line.

Temperature-sensitive mutants of vesicular stomatitis virus; homology and nomenclature.

Reciprocal complementation experiments in mouse L cells and BHK-2I cells show that the complementing temperature-sensitive (ts) mutants of vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV), Indiana serotype, isolated from the HR wild-type strain, belong to groups I, III and IV (Flamand & Pringle, I97I). Since the homologies of ts mutants isolated from three different wild-type strains growing in different host ...