Volume 22, Number 5—May 2016
Etymologia
Etymologia: Orthobunyavirus
The largest genus in the family Bunyaviridae, the genus Orthobunyavirus was originally named Bunyavirus, for the type species Bunyamwera virus, first isolated in 1943 from the eponymous town in western Uganda. Originally, the vernacular term “bunyavirus” was used for viruses in this genus, but as more genera were added toBunyaviridae (there are currently 5), confusion arose over whether “bunyavirus” referred to members of the genus Bunyavirus or family Bunyaviridae.
In 1995, the Bunyaviridae Study Group of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses recommended adding the prefix “ortho-” (Greek for “correct”) to the genus name (C. Calisher, pers. comm.) to prevent confusion. Two orthobunyaviruses reported on in this issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases are Inkoo virus and Chatanga virus (named for the towns of Inkoo, Finland, and Khatanga, Russia, respectively, where they were first isolated).
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Suggested citation for this article: Etymologia: Orthobunyavirus. Emerg Infect Dis [serial on the Internet]. 2016 May [date cited].http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2205.ET2205
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