Taxon Details

family: Papillomaviridae (release 2022, MSL 38)

Etymology: from the Latin papilla, meaning “nipple" or "pustule”, and the Greek suffix -oma, used to form nouns denoting “tumours”, referring to the association of some viruses in the family with cancers; the suffix -viridae for family taxa
Created in Proposal: ICTV 1st Report.pdf PubMed ID: 36298863
Report Chapter: Papillomaviridae

International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses

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