目前干扰素的研究不仅涉及病毒学家,许多免疫学家、细胞生物学家、肿瘤生物学家等也从事这项研究。因此,有必要明确干扰素的定义,将已经发现的干扰素进行分类以及提出正确的命名系统。为此,在美国国立过敏反应和传染病研究所和在世界 Currently interferon research involves not only virologists, but also many immunologists, cell biologists, oncologists and the like. Therefore, it is necessary to clarify the definition of interferon, to classify the interferons that have been found and to propose a correct naming system. For this reason, at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and in the world