Virus taxonomy : classification and nomenclature of viruses : seventh report of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses
Taxonomy is the naming and categorization of organisms. The first internationally organized attempts to introduce some order in the bewildering variety of viruses took place at the International Congress of Microbiology held in Moscow in 1966. A committee, later called the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV), was given the task of developing a single, universal taxonomic scheme for all the viruses
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