Taxonomic Changes for Human Viruses, 2020 to 2022

Overview

Journal J Clin Microbiol

Specialty Microbiology

Date 2022 Dec 21

PMID 36541768

Authors

Ryan F Relich

Michael J Loeffelholz

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Abstract

The classification of viruses remains relevant to several disciplines, including clinical virology. Since the original publication of this review in 2019, many known viruses have undergone taxonomic revisions, and several novel human and animal viruses have been described. Here, we provide an update to our previous reviews of taxonomic changes for disease-causing viruses of humans, covering changes that occurred between 2020 and 2022. As with previous editions, this update was informed by recent advances in virus taxonomy made by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses; the changes and additions noted herein are not all-inclusive.

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