The home page of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses ICTVdB Home Page ICTVdB Index of Viruses, species lists for all virus Families and Genera ICTVdB virus descriptions automatically generated from ICTVdB databaseICTVdB character list, the underlying questionnaire used to build the virus descriptionsICTVdB Picture Gallery avisual entry point to the virus descriptions The ICTVdB Management,Description of the origin and functions of the ICTVdB databaseA tuturial to learn how to find your way around and of how to use the different outputs from the database displayed on the web.


 

  ICTV and ICTVdB Sites
 

  New ICTVdB

A complete rewrite of ICTVdB is underway.
An outline of the next step can be perused at the ICTV site.
 

  ICTV

a committee of the Virology Division
in the International Union of Microbiological Societies

  ICTVdB

developed since 1991 and maintained until 2006 by
Dr Cornelia Büchen-Osmond.
The latest virus taxonomy should be accessed from the ICTV site.

  European site

at the Rothamsted Research in Harperden, UK.
 

  ICTVdB Sites and Links

List of Human Viral Diseases with corresponding International Code of Diseases (ICD-10)
Viruses listed by the Australia Group
SARS coronavirus

  International Sites and Links

 

World Health Organization

  Regional Sites and Links

  USA

The National Institutes of Health
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
The NIAID Biodefense Program
Centers for Disease Control
Arbovirus Catalog

  Australia

Health Insite - Viral Infections

  References and Support

  Publications

Büchen-Osmond C. (2003). Taxonomy and Classification of Viruses. In: Manual of Clinical Microbiology, 8th ed, Vol 2, p. 1217-1226, ASM Press, Washington DC
Büchen-Osmond C. (2003). The Universal Virus Database ICTVdB. Computing in Science and Engineering 5 (3), 16-25.

  Support

The ICTVdB was developed by Cornelia Büchen-Osmond, Australian National University and Columbia University, New York, USA

The ICTVdB is supported by NIH/NIAID grant 1U54AI057158-01 (PI Lipkin, Columbia University) Northeast Biodefense Center.

   Copyright

International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses
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   Contact

Cornelia Büchen-Osmond.