ICTV in San Francisco: a report from the Plenary Session

At the International Congress of Virology (ICV) in San Francisco in July 2005, the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) held a Plenary Session. This note summarizes the reports made to the meeting by the President and the chairs of the ICTV subcommittees acknowledged at the end of this note. It also reports the results of elections to positions on the ICTV Executive Committee (EC) and changes made to the statutes that govern how ICTV operates.