Proposal for Human Respiratory Syncytial Virus Nomenclature below the Species Level
Vahid Salimi, Mariana Viegas
1, Alfonsina Trento
1, Charles N. Agoti, Larry J. Anderson, Vasanthi Avadhanula, Justin Bahl, Louis Bont, J. Rodney Brister, Patricia A. Cane, Mónica Galiano, Barney S. Graham, Eneida L. Hatcher, Orienka Hellferscee, David M. Henke, Siddhivinayak Hirve, Sandra Jackson, Els Keyaerts, Leyla Kragten-Tabatabaie, Stephen Lindstrom, Inne Nauwelaers, D. James Nokes, Peter J. Openshaw, Teresa C. Peret, Pedro A. Piedra, Kaat Ramaekers, Annabel Rector, Nídia Sequeira Trovão, Anne von Gottberg, Maria Zambon, Wenqing Zhang, Thomas C. Williams, Ian G. Barr
2 , and Ursula J. Buchholz
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Author affiliations: Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran (V. Salimi); Hospital de Niños Dr. Ricardo Gutiérrez, Buenos Aires, Argentina (M. Viegas); National Center of Biotechnology, Madrid, Spain (A. Trento); KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya (C.N. Agoti, D.J. Nokes); Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (L.J. Anderson); Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA (V. Avadhanula, D.M. Henke, P.A. Piedra); University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA (J. Bahl); University Medical Center, Utrecht, the Netherlands (L. Bont); National Center for Biotechnology Information, Bethesda, Maryland, USA (J.R. Brister, E.L. Hatcher); Public Health England, London, UK (P.A. Cane, M. Galiano, I. Nauwelaers, M. Zambon); Francis Crick Institute, London (M. Galiano); National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda (B.S. Graham, U.J. Buchholz); National Institute for Communicable Diseases of the National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa (O. Hellferscee, A. von Gottberg); W; orld Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland (S. Hirve, S. Jackson, W. Zhang); University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium (E. Keyaerts); ReSViNET Foundation, Zeist, the Netherlands (L. Kragten-Tabatabaie); Julius Clinical, Zeist (L. Kragten-Tabatabaie); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta (S. Lindstrom, T. Peret); Imperial College London, London (I. Nauwelaers, P. Openshaw); Rega Institute, Leuven (K. Ramaekers, A. Rector); Fogarty International Center, Bethesda (N. Sequeira Trovão); University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK (T.C. Williams); Peter Doherty Institute for Infection & Immunity, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (I. Barr)
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Figure 1. Annual numbers of HRSV whole-genome sequences released in GenBank since publication of the whole-genome sequence of HRSV A2, M74568, in 1993. HRSV, human respiratory syncytial virus.
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