Members and Officers ICTV
Vertebrate Subcommittee
Study Group Caliciviridae - 1999
Dr. M.P.G. Koopmans, Chair,
Research Laboratory for Infectious Diseases,
National Institute of Public Health and the Environment
Antonie van leeuwenhoeklan 9
3720BA Bilthoven
The Netherlands
Phone: 31.30.2742391
Fax: 31.30.2744449
e-mail: marion.koopmans@rivm.nl
Dr. Tamie Ando
Viral Gastroenteritis Section,
Respiratory and Enterovirus Branch,
Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases,
National Center for Infectious Diseases,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(Mail Stop Go4)
1600 Clifton Road, N.E.,
Atlanta, GA, 30333, USA
Telephone: 404 639-2396
Facsimile: 404 639-3645
E. mail: txa@cdc.gov
Dr. Ian Clarke
Molecular Microbiology,
Mail point 814,
Southampton General Hospital,
Southampton SO16 6YD
U.K.
Phone: +44 1703 796975
Fax: +44 1703 774316
Email: inc@soton.ac.uk
Dr. Mary K. Estes
Div. of Molecular Virology
Baylor College of Medicine
One Baylor Plaza, RM 206D, Texas Medical Center
Houston, TX 77030 USA
Ph. 713-798-4443
Fax: 713-798-3586
E-mail: mestes@melnick.mvir.bcm.tmc.edu
Dr. Kim Y. Green,
Laboratory of Infectious Disease
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
National Institutes of Health
9000 Rockville Pike
Building 7, Room 129
Bethesda, MD
Phone 301 496-5811
FAX: 301 496-8312
Email: kgreen@atlas.niaid.nih.gov
Dr. David O. Matson
Virginia Med. School
855 West Brambleton Avenue
Norfolk, Virginia 23510
phone: 757 668-6423
Fax: 757 668-6476
email : dmatson@chkd.com
Dr. Shuji Nakada
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine
Sapporo Japan
Phone: 011-611-2111 Ext. 3413, 3414
FAX: 011-611-0352
Email: snakata@serpent.cc.sapmed.ac.jp
Dr. John D. Neill
Enteric Disease Research Unit
United States Department of Agriculture
National Animal Disease Center
2300 Dayton Road
P.O. Box 70
Ames, IA 50010
Phone: 515 239-8443
FAX: 515 239-8458
Email: jneill@NADC.ARS.USDA.GOV
Dr. A.W.Smith
College of Veterinary Medicine
Oregon State University
Dryden Hall 106
Corvallis
Oregon
USA
Phone: 1.541.737.2318
Fax: 1.541.737.2730
email alvin.smith@orst.edu
Dr. Michael J. Studdert
Centre for Equine VirologySchool of Veterinary Science
The University of Melbourne
Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia
Ph: 61 3 9344 7373
Fax: 61 3 9344 7374
E-mail: michael_studdert@muwayf.unimelb.edu.au
Dr. H.-J. Thiel
Institut f r Virologie (FB 18)
Justus-Liebig-Universit t
Frankfurter Str. 107
35392 Giessen - Germany
Phone: +49-641-99 38350
Fax: +49-641-99 38359
Email: Heinz-Juergen.Thiel@vetmed.uni-giessen.de
The following extract is from "The Calicivirus Website" at the Institute of Animal Health in the UK
The Calicivirus Website
The Caliciviridae Study Group recently
proposed the creation of four genera within the family, Vesivirus, Lagovirus,
"Norwalk-like viruses" and "Sapporo-like viruses", the latter two of
which remain to be formally named. They also proposed that hepatitis E virus be removed
from the Caliciviridae. The ICTV Executive Committee formerly approved these
proposals at a meeting in San Diego earlier this year (Pringle, C.R. 1998. Virus taxonomy
- San Diego 1998. Arch. Virol. 143/7: 1449-1459). Thus hepatitis E virus now belongs to an
unassigned (or floating) genus called "Hepatitis E-like viruses".
Vertebrate Virus Sub-Committee
Proposals
Proposals from the Caliciviridae
Study Group
- To create a new genus, Vesivirus, within the family Caliciviridae.
- To designate Swine vesicular exanthema virus as the type species of the
genus Vesivirus.
- To create a new genus, Lagovirus, within the family Caliciviridae.
- To designate Rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus as the type species of the
genus Lagovirus.
- To create a new genus, "Norwalk-like viruses", within the family Caliciviridae.
- To designate Norwalk virus as the type species of the genus
"Norwalk-like viruses".
- To create a new genus, "Sapporo-like viruses", within the family Caliciviridae.
- To designate Sapporo virus as the type species of the genus
"Sapporo-like viruses".
- To remove Hepatitis E virus from the family Caliciviridae and to
designate the "Hepatitis E-like viruses" as an unassigned genus.
Thus the new taxonomic structure of the family is as follows:
- Family: Caliciviridae
- Genus: Vesivirus
- Type species: Swine vesicular exanthema virus
- Genus: Lagovirus
- Type species: Rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus
- Genus: "Norwalk-like viruses"
- Type species: Norwalk virus
- Genus: "Sapporo-like viruses"
- Type species: Sapporo virus
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