Yes. But you can still call it HIV, explains the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses about its updated naming system.
Lentivirus humimdef1 is the proper taxonomic classification for common HIV, according to an updated naming system devised by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV). The change was approved in 2020 but began drawing more attention last month when the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) announced it would be adding about 3,000 new Latinized names to its database in the coming months, according to Science magazine.
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