Taxon Details

Taxon name: Orlajensenviridae

to honour the Danish chemist and dairy bacteriologist Sigurd Orla-Jensen who was largely responsible for the isolation and taxonomy of the bacteria in the genus Microbacterium; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

ICTV Report: Created in Proposal: 2021.060B.R.Orlajensenviridae.zip Reference:

International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses

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