Basic Virology / Edward K. Wagner; Martinez J. Hewlett ...et al

Includes Bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: the impact of viruses on our view of life
An outline of virus replication and viral pathogenesis
Virus disease in populations and individual animals
Patterns of some viral diseases of humans
Virus structure and classification
The beginning and end of the virus replication cycle
Host immune response to viral infection: the nature of the vertebrate immune response
Strategies to protect against and combat viral infection
Visualization and enumeration of virus particles
Replicating and measuring biological activity of viruses
Physical and chemical manipulation of the structural components of viruses
Characterization of viral products expressed in the infected cell
Viruses use cellular processes to express their genetic information
Replication of positive-sense RNA viruses
Replication strategies of RNA viruses requiring RNA-directed mRNA transcription as the first step in viral gene expression
Replication strategies of small and medium-sized DNA viruses
Replication of some nuclear-replicating eukaryotic DNA viruses with large genomes
Replication of cytoplasmic DNA viruses and large bacteriophages
Retroviruses: converting RNA to DNA
HIV and related lentiviruses
Hepadnaviruses: variations on the retrovirus theme
The molecular genetics of viruses
Molecular pathogenesis
Viral bioinformatics and beyond
Viruses and the future: problems and promises