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
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
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
This note displays 22 virus images such as Vertebrate virus
families such as Bunyamwera virus, Coronaviruses, Ebola virus, Eastern equine encephalitis virus,
Coronaviruses, Herpes simplex virus, Human adenovirus, Human rotavirus,
Influenza virus, LaCrosse virus, Lassa virus, Marburg Virus, Poliovirus, Rabies
virus, Rift Valley fever virus, Ross River virus, Scrapie, Sin Nombre virus,
Smallpox virus, St. Louis encephalitis virus, Vesicular Stomatitis Indiana
virus .
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.
This
note describes about the global impact of dengue and its epidemiology, the clinical presentation of
acute dengue and the pathogenesis of acute dengue infection.
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