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