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  1. Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire du C.N.R.S., Strasbourg, France
    M. H. V. Van Regenmortel
  2. Department of Microbiology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, U.S.A.
    J. Maniloff
  3. Center for Infectious Diseases, CDC, Fort Collins, Colorado, U.S.A.
    C. Calisher

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Van Regenmortel, M.H.V., Maniloff, J. & Calisher, C. The concept of virus species.Archives of Virology 120, 313–317 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01310487

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