Report from the 36th and 37th meetings of the Executive Committee of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses

It has become the regular practice of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) Executive Committee (EC) secretaries to report a summary of the substantive business transacted at meetings of the EC as notes such as this one in Virology Division News ( VDN). Because of exceptional circumstances, this did not happen after the 36th meeting of the EC held in Kingston in July 2004 (EC36). This report contains a summary of both EC36 and the 37th EC meeting (EC37), which was held at the International Congress of Virology (ICV; part of the joint meeting organized by the International Union of Microbiological Societies) in San Francisco in July 2005.