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Catalogue of Arthropod-Borne Viruses of the World

The Subcommittee on Information Exchange^* of The American Committee on Arthropod-borne Viruses

Preface

For the past decade, the Subcommittee on Information Exchange of the American Committee on Arthropod-borne Viruses has been charged, as one of its missions, with the operation of a registry of data on arthropod-borne vertebrate viruses (arboviruses). This has included the assembly of a working document known as the Catalogue of Arthropod-borne Viruses. The objectives of the Subcommittee and the historical development and operation of the working Catalogue have been described in detail by Taylor. The Information Exchange program was sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation until 1962 and since by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

The working Catalogue has been kept current by quarterly distribution to collaborating institutions of "new" virus registrations and ancillary information in the form of personal communications and abstracts of published articles on the registered viruses. At the close of each year, an annual statistical synopsis has been prepared and distributed to program participants.

^* Trygve O. Berge (Chairman), American Type Culture Collection, 12301 Parklawn Drive, Rockville, Maryland 20852, Robert E. Shope, Yale Arbovirus Research Unit, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06510, and Telford H. Work, University of California Medical Center, Los Angeles, California 90024. richard M. Taylor, emeritus chairman of the Subcommittee, has continued to serve as Consultant to the Catalogue editor.

Grant number AI 04938 and Contract numbers PH43-67-1151 and PH43-68-1008 from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health. This supplement was published under the auspices of a grant from The Rockefeller Foundation to The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.