Taxon Details

family: Adenoviridae (release 2017, MSL 32)

Etymology: from adenoid, the tissue where adenoviruses, originally named adenoid degeneration viruses, were discoverd in 1953; the suffix -viridae for family taxa
Created in Proposal: Ratification_1975.pdf PubMed ID: 13223958
Report Chapter: Adenoviridae

International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses

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