Addendum
Genetic diversity and evolution of hepatitis C virus – 15 years on, by P. Simmonds
Journal of General Virology vol. 85, part 11, pp. 3173 – 3188
Since this review was sent to press, there has been a meeting about hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotype classification where it was decided to drop the 'clade' description of the main genetic groups of HCV, and to revert to the term 'genotype'. This change will be reflected in the next ICTV report, and the first paragraph of the 'Classification' section of this review article should be amended as follows.
The Seventh Report of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) currently classifies HCV and GB virus B as members of the genus Hepacivirus within the family Flaviviridae (Heinz et al., 2000). The six main genetic groups of HCV have been designated ‘genotypes’, reflecting their phylogenetic group (Fig. 3). As proposed previously, based on this type of phylogenetic analysis (Mellor et al., 1995; Mizokami et al., 1996; de Lamballerie et al., 1997), ‘new’ genotypes (such as 7a, 8a, 9a and 11a) have been assigned as members of genotype 6 and genotype 10a has been assigned to genotype 3.
