Renaming of genera Ebolavirus and Marburgvirus to Orthoebolavirus and Orthomarburgvirus, respectively, and introduction of binomial species names within family Filoviridae

Affiliations

• ¹ Institute of Virology, Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg, Germany.
• ² The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, TX, USA.
• ³ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA.
• ⁴ United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Frederick, MD, USA.
• ⁵ World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
• ⁶ Department of Virology, Immunology and Microbiology, Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA.
• ⁷ Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia.
• ⁸ Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
• ⁹ Center for Emerging Zoonotic and Parasitic Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Diseases of the National Health Laboratory Service, Sandringham-Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa.
• ¹⁰ CBR Division, Dstl, Porton Down, Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK.
• ¹¹ Division of Global Epidemiology, International Institute for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.
• ¹² National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center, Fort Detrick, Frederick, MD, USA.
• ¹³ Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick (IRF-Frederick), Division of Clinical Research (DCR), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), B-8200 Research Plaza, Fort Detrick, Frederick, MD, 21702, USA. [email protected].