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

Virology An introduction

This note explains the following topics: The origin of virology, Virus structure, Enveloped virus, Genomes, Viral genomes and classification of viruses.

Author(s): JU Medicine

42 Pages

Virus Images

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 .

Author(s): Frederick A. Murphy

NA Pages

Viruses From Structure to Biology

This note covers the following topics: Some historical highlights: structural virology and virology, Solving the Structure of Icosahedral Plant Viruses, Picornavirus Structure, The Influenza Virus Hemagglutinin, The Influenza Virus Neuraminidase, Issues of Science and Society.

Author(s): Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis

NA Pages

Current Concepts in Dengue Pathogenesis (PDF 92P)

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.

Author(s): Timothy P. Endy

92 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

Molecular Virology of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (PDF 38P)

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Author(s): NA

NA Pages