Taxonomy of vertebrate viruses - current data

Abstract

Viral taxonomy is continuously changing. International Committee of Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) takes care of this taxonomy and publishes topic data from time to time. The last part - work ICTV publication came out in 2005, but there is available viral taxonomy 2009 online. The topic taxonomy of viruses infecting vertebrates consists of 9 families classified in 4 orders. Moreover, there are 23 families of viruses infecting vertebrates, that do not belong to any order and 1 genus, that has not been classified to family yet. This study consists of short description for each family of viruses, that infect vertebrates. Additionally there are some proposals to changes, which are considered by ICTV.