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| | CDC - Emerging Issues in Virus Taxonomy |
 | | Since ICTV study groups (12) are mostly responsible for deciding which virus species should be recognized within individual genera and families, these specialty groups, with their in-depth knowledge of particular areas in virology, have been given the task of establishing which diagnostic properties are most useful for species demarcation. | | | Although an emerging discipline, virus taxonomy is essential to the working virologist, and we need to achieve universal agreement on the principles so that we can freely communicate without misunderstanding (37). | | | This new typography has met with some criticism (19,20) and corresponding rebuttals (21,22), but it is now generally applied in most scientific journals and books on virology (23). |
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http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EiD/vol10no1/03-0279.htm
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| | Bacteriology 100: Animal Viruses |
| | HBV is spread through having sex with an infected person without using a condom, by sharing drugs or needles when shooting drugs, through needle sticks or sharps exposures on the job, and from an infected mother to her baby during birth. | | | Combination therapy using pegylated interferon and ribaviran is currently the treatment of choice. | | | Combination therapy can eliminate the virus in 50% of persons infected with HCV genotype 1, and up to 80% of individuals infected with HCV genotypes 2 and 3. |
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http://www.bact.wisc.edu/bact100/Viruses1.html
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| | The literature of computer viruses is steeped in biological analogy. Even the choice of the name for these programming ... |
| | Classification does involve an underlying philosophy about the mechanisms and organizational structure of the items and groups being classified. | | | Even the choice of method to create groups can have significant impact on the results - witness the differences in different mathematical clustering techniques on the same similarity matrix data. | | | In many ways it parallels the approach used by classical zoological taxonomists, and popular field guides to animals. |
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http://home.earthlink.net/~colobus/vclassif.htm
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| | Intenational Code of Virus Clasifications and Nomenclature |
| | Classification of such isolates is not the responsibility of the ICTV but is the responsibility of international specialty groups. | | | The styles used when virus names are devised differ according to the traditions of the particular fields of virology. | | | For example, Bimbo virus is a rhabdovirus of vertebrates but is not a member of any of the currently recognised genera in the family Rhabdoviridae. |
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ICTVdb/ICTVWeb/rules.html
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| | Virology - Introduction |
| | The helical nature of this virus is quite clear in negative staining electron micrographs since the virus forms a rigid rod-like structure. | | | influenza virus, rabies virus), the capsid is more flexible (and longer) and appears in negative stains rather like a telephone cord. | | | Modified from Volk et al., Essentials of Medical Microbiology. |
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http://pathmicro.med.sc.edu/mhunt/intro-vir.htm
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| | Medmicro Chapter 41 |
| | Although the current rules for nomenclature do not prohibit the introduction of new sigla, they require that the siglum be meaningful to workers in the field and be recognized by international study groups. | | | The pathogenesis of the sporadic amyloidoses, however, is still a matter of highly ambitious research. | | | Viruses were first found to have 532 symmetry by x-ray diffraction studies and subsequently by electron microscopy with negative-staining techniques. |
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http://gsbs.utmb.edu/microbook/ch041.htm
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| | Classification of Virus Risk Types Using Kernel-Based Classifiers |
| | Infection by high-risk genital HPVs is associated with the development of anogenital cancers. | | | Classification of virus risk types is important to understand the mechanisms in infection and to develop novel instruments for medical examination such as DNA chips. | | | Recently more than 120 have been partly reported. |
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http://www.iscb.org/ismb2003/posters/jgjoungATbi.snu.ac.kr_457.html
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| | However, the coordinator will not be able to keep up with all the latest movements in virus research. | | | With this numbering system the database is structured such that we do not need to repeat the same information between levels. | | | The Web accessibility of the virus descriptions at all stages of preparation will also facilitate the reviewing process by the Study Groups of the ICTV. |
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http://www.ictvdb.rothamsted.ac.uk/ICTVdB/ICTVdB.htm
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| | VIRUS STRUCTURE |
| | Reasons for Studying Aspects of a Virus Capsid Structure: | | | One of the following criteria had been used. | | | In formal usage the name of the taxon should precede the term for the taxonomic unit. |
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http://web.mala.bc.ca/mhernand/334/chp5virus_structure.htm
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| | Virus Types |
| | HIV-1 and HIV-2 are both considered subspecies of HIV (human immunodeficiency virus). | | | Virus subspecies are often described by adding numbers to the common name. | | | Describe a hypothetical virus genome such that it displays five structural characteristics each of which may be shared with some but none of which are shared with all other viruses. |
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http://www.mansfield.ohio-state.edu/~sabedon/biol3025.htm
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| | LiveScience.com - Huge New Virus Defies Classification |
| | It is so large and complex that researchers had trouble recognizing it as a virus. | | | Mimivirus is, however, like other viruses in that it is not able to convert energy or replicate on its own. | | | Mimivirus’ unique nature may hold some key to the evolution of singe-celled organisms three billion years ago. |
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http://www.livescience.com/animalworld/041111_giant_virus.html
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| | [Classification and virus expression of primary cerebral lymphomas] |
| | The state of the art may have changed since the publication date. | | | EBV genome was found in 3/3 AIDS cases, but in none of 40 immunocompetent cases, while HHV6 was detected in 2 tumors of immunocompetent patients. | | | We conclude that (1) the Updated Kiel Classification is not applicable to a majority of PCL, and (2) EBV and HHV6 do not appear to play a major role in the pathogenesis of PCL in immunocompetent subjects. |
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http://www.aegis.com/aidsline/1993/apr/M9340323.html
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| | Virus Classification |
| | An interactive virus identification key is currently under development at this site: test it and see how the criteria rapidly allow identification. | | | For example, virus families infecting two kingdoms of organisms are: | | | - although a number of other criteria - such as disease symptoms, antigenicity, protein profile, host range, etc. - are important in precise identification, consideration of the above three criteria are sufficient in most cases to allow identification of a virus down to familial if not generic level. |
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http://www.mcb.uct.ac.za/tutorial/classif.htm
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| | Computer Virus Classification |
| | This may be achieved by encrypting of the main body of the virus and making modifications to the decryption routine. | | | This is due to the fact that any virus like any program may contain errors, which may damage both files and disk sectors (for example, seemingly harmless "DenZuk" virus works rather correctly with 360K diskettes but can destroy information on high- capacity diskettes. | | | In multitasking operating systems the lifetime of a resident DOS virus can also be limited by the moment of closing of the infected DOS window, the activity of boot viruses in some operating systems is limited to the moment of installation of OS disk drivers. |
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http://www.avp.ch/avpve/classes/classes.stm
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| | Nucleotide sequence of feline immunodeficiency virus: classification of Japanese isolates into two subtypes which are ... |
| | The state of the art may have changed since the publication date. | | | Seven isolates of feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV), Shizuoka, Yokohama, Sendai-1, Sendai-2, Fukuoka, Aomori-1, and Aomori-2, were isolated from FIV-seropositive domestic cats in Japan, and their proviral DNAs were amplified by PCR. | | | Nucleotide sequence of feline immunodeficiency virus: classification of Japanese isolates into two subtypes which are distinct from non-Japanese subtypes. |
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http://www.aegis.com/aidsline/1995/aug/M9580441.html
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| | Virus Taxonomy - 2005 in genomic order |
| | The taxonomic structure of virus odres, families and genera | | | The taxonomic structure of virus orders, families and genera are listed in three different ways to facilitate the search for a particular virus family or genus: | | | Additional access points to virus species lists, descriptions and images on the web: |
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ICTVdb/Ictv/fr-fst-g.htm
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| | Classification of Veterinary Viruses |
| | Viruses belonging to a common group have similar properties and one can often infer a great deal about how a virus may replicate, the kind of disease it may produce and how it may spread from what we know about other members of the group. | | | While it provides a sense of order to the large number of viruses that have been discovered in the last few decades, it has a practical purpose as well. | | | An exception to this rule are viruses that have been named after a person, eg Epstein-Barr virus, or a place eg. |
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http://duke.usask.ca/~misra/virology/taxonomy.html
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| | However since the virus is designed to attack all Macintosh emulators on the Atari other than Aladin, one may well question Proficomp's motives. | | | Moreover, == == we have only a limited access to MacViruses, so we ask for aid. | | | --------------------- Attributes ------------------------------------ Easy Identification.: --- Type of infection...: - extending affected programs by virus size; - modifying affected program's jump table; - patching operating system calls in RAM; - upon each launch, the programs "last modified" date entry is updated. |
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http://freaky.staticusers.net/viruses/MacVirusDefinitions.txt
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| | Biol 426 |
| | Assume that you can grow the virus in an appropriate cuture medium and that you have unlimited amounts of the virus to work with. | | | Describe a technique that you would use to identify the nucleic acid content of an unknown virus. | | | How can this information be used to a) determine how many and what kinds of proteins the virus can synthesize; b) when/under what conditions each protein is synthesized during viral infection? |
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http://biology.fullerton.edu/courses/biol_426/Web/strucclass.html
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| | The Big Picture Book of Viruses |
| | ICTV Net is an email network of ICTV members that provides the virology community with the opportunity to interact with ICTV, ask questions, and even make proposals... | | | If you are interested in developing a WWW site for your lab or organization, please feel free to contact me for any needed advice and/or assistance. | | | f you know of a virus picture that is not listed here, or would like to update the listing of a site, please use our virology site submission form or email me with the address. |
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http://www.tulane.edu/~dmsander/Big_Virology/BVHomePage.html
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| | Virus databases online |
| | 1217-1226, ASM Press, Washington DC Büchen-Osmond C. The Universal Virus Database ICTVdB. |
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ICTVdb
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