Basics of Virology

Medical Virology Lecture Note by Belay Tafa

Virology is a field within microbiology that encompasses the study of viruses. Medical virology deals with the study of medically important viruses and the diseases they cause or their effect on human beings.The notes contains contents as follows : Introduction to Virology, Baltimore system of classification, Viruses as Human Pathogen, RNA viruses, Polyomaviruses, Herpesviruses, Epstein - Barr virus, Hepadnaviruses: HBV and HDV,  Hepatoviruses, Picornaviruses, Flavivirus, Human Immune Deficiency Virus (HIV), Family Reoviridae, Orthomyxoviruses, Clinical Course of Rabies, etc.

Author(s): Belay Tafa, Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, Medicine and Health Sciences, Ambo University

96 Pages

Antivirals Virology

The contents of this lecture presentation include : Vaccines can prevent viral disease, Why are there so few antiviral drugs?, Antiviral history, Blind screening, Antiviral discovery today, The path of drug discovery, Mechanism-based screens, Cell-based screen, Antiviral screening, High throughput screening, Dangers of drug resistance, Mechanisms of drug resistance, Acyclovir mechanism of action, Improving acyclovir, Acyclovir-resistant HSV, Symmetrel, Influenza virus NA inhibitors, WIN compounds, Inhibitors of picornavirus uncoating, New HCV drugs, HCV new drug pipeline, Azido-deoxythymidine, AZT, Non-nucleoside RT inhibitors, IN inhibitors, Maraviroc: CCR5 inhibitor, Combination therapy, Mathematics of drug resistance, ART saves lives, Pre-exposure prophylaxis.

Author(s): Prof. Vincent Racaniello, Columbia University

61 Pages

Human Herpesviruses

This comprehensive account of the human herpesviruses provides an encyclopedic overview of their basic virology and clinical manifestations.

Author(s): Ann Arvin, Gabriella

NA Pages

Human Immunodeficiency Viruses and Human T Cell Lymphotropic Viruses

This volume evaluates the carcinogenic risk to humans posed by infections with human immunodeficiency viruses types 1 and 2 (HIV-1 and HIV-2) and human T-cell lymphotropic viruses types I and II (HTLV-I and HTLV-II).

Author(s): National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S

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General Virology

This book covers the following topics: Virus history, Virus Diversity, Virus Shapes, Virus Sizes, Components of genomes, Isolation and purification of viruses and components, Virus host interaction, Positive strand RNA virus, Negative strand RNA viruses, Other RNA viruses and DNA viruses.

Author(s): Sachin kumar

NA Pages

Molecular Virology

This book covers various aspects of Molecular Virology. Covered topics are: HIV-1 Reservoirs and Latency, Molecular Evolution of Hepatitis Viruses, Metabolic Aspects of Hepatitis C Virus Infection, Influenza C Virus, Viral Vectors in Neurobiology, Avian and Pandemic Influenza.

Author(s): Moses P. Adoga

168 Pages

Perspectives On Progress In Plant Virology (PDF 21P)

This note describes the following topics: Proteins, Nucleic Acids, Serology, Replication of Plant Viruses in Vectors, Insect Tissue Cultures as a Tool for Studying Plant Viruses, Virus-Induced Mutations in Maize, Noncapsid Viral Proteins, Viruses Infecting Eukaryotic Chlorella-like Green Algae, Application of Recombinant DNA Techniques to Plant Viruses, The Versatile RNA.

Author(s): Myron K. Brakke, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

21 Pages

Principles of Virus Architecture

This note covers the following topics: Structural techniques, Capsid organization in spherical viruses, High resolution structures of spherical viruses and quasi-equivalence theory, Helical Viruses and Enveloped viruses.

Author(s): B.V. Venkataram Prasad and Michael F Schmid

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