Virus Taxonomy

VIIIth Report of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses

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Hardbound, 1162 Pages
Published: JUL-2005
ISBN 10: 0-12-249951-4
ISBN 13: 978-0-12-249951-7
Imprint: ACADEMIC PRESS


Edited by
Claude Fauquet, ILTAB/Danforth Plant Science Center, University of Missouri, St. Louis, U.S.A.
M.A. Mayo, Scottish Crop Institute, Invergowrie, Scotland
J. Maniloff, University Rochester, New York, U.S.A.
U. Desselberger, Virologie et Immunologie Moleculaires, Yvelines, France
L.A. Ball, University of Alabama, Birmingham, U.S.A.

Description
This is the standard and definitive reference for virus taxonomy, generated by the ICTV approximately every 3 years. The VIII ICTV Virus Taxonomy Report provides information on 3 orders of viruses, 73 families, 9 subfamilies, 287 genera and 1938 virus species, illustrated by more than 429 pictures and diagrams, most of them in color.

Audience:
Research level virologists, microbiologists, molecular biologists, infectious disease specialists and those in the pharma sector working on antivirals


 
Last update: 5 Nov 2011