Principles of Animal Virology Lecture Notes

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 Papillomaviruses

This volume of the IARC Monographs evaluates the carcinogenic risk to humans posed by infection with human papillomaviruses (HPVs).

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

NA Pages

Principles of Animal Virology Lecture Notes

This note explains the following topics: Central Nervous System Viruses, Gastrointestinal Tract Viruses, Immune System versus Viruses, Respiratory Viruses, ViralMichigan State University

Author(s): Dr Paul Young and Dr Theo Sloots

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General Virology by Esam Ibraheem Anzar

This note covers the following topics: History, Definition of a virus, Viral structure and host range.

Author(s): Dr Esam Ibraheem Anzar

40 Pages

Systematic Veterinary Virology

This note explains the following topics: structure, classification, repliation and viral interference, Group V viruses, Negative sense single stranded RNA viruses, Morbilli virus, Orthomyxo viruses, Equine flu, nature of the virus, disease and its pathogenesis, diagnosis and various lab tests, vaccines, Zoonotic potential, Impacts of swine flu, Negative sense RNA viruses, morphology and the nature of the virus.

Author(s): Anand Agricultural University

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