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VIROLOGY |
Virology is the study of viruses, complexes of nucleic acids and proteins that have the capacity for replication in animal, plant and bacterial cells. To replicate themselves, viruses usurp functions of the host cells on which they are parasites. The viral parasite causes changes in the cell, particularly its antigenicity; moreover, directing the host cell’s metabolism to the production of new virus particles may cause cellular death. Virally-induced cell death, changes in antigenicity and the response of the host to the presence of the virus leads to the manifestations of viral disease.
Viruses come in two basic types, those that have a genome of DNA and those that have a genome of RNA.
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Definitions, Classification, Morphology and Chemistry
Virus replication Strategies
DNA Virus Replication Strategies
RNA Virus Replication Strategies
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Viral Genetics
Oncogenic Viruses – DNA TUMOR VIRUSES
CHAPTER SIX PART TWO
ONCOGENIC VIRUSES – RNA TUMOR VIRUSES (Retroviruses)
Human Immunodeficiency Virus
PART I HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS AND AIDS
PART II HIV AND AIDS, THE DISEASE
PART III COURSE OF THE DISEASE
PART IV PROGRESSION AND COFACTORS
PART V STATISTICS
PART VI SUBTYPES AND CO-RECEPTORS
PART VII COMPONENTS AND LIFE CYCLE OF HIV
PART VIII LATENCY OF HIV
PART IX GENOME OF HIV
PART X LOSS OF CD4 CELLS
PART XI POPULATION POLYMORPHISM, STRATEGIES TO COMBAT THE VIRUS, CAN HIV BE CURED?APPENDIX I ANTI-HIV VACCINES
APPENDIX II DOES HIV CAUSE AIDS?
APPENDIX III ANTI-HIV CHEMOTHERAPY
VACCINES: PAST SUCCESSES AND FUTURE PROSPECTS
APPENDIX
REDUCTION IN THE INCIDENCE OF CERTAIN DISEASES AFTER THE INTRODUCTION OF VACCINATION
Molecular approaches to the development of viral vaccines
Viral Chemotherapy
PICORNAVIRUSES: ENTEROVIRUSES
CHAPTER TEN – PART TWO
PICORNAVIRUSES: RHINOVIRUSES
Appendix: Acute Flaccid Myelitis (AFM): Update on Disease Symptoms and Potential Etiologic Agent(s)
CHAPTER TEN – PART THREE
REPLICATION OF POLIO AND OTHER PICORNAVIRUSES
Herpesvirus
Virus-Host InteractionS
Influenza virus
Mumps, Measles
treatment
Rubella
Parainfluenza, Respiratory SyncYtial and Adeno Virus
Rotaviruses and Other Agents of Viral Gastroenteritis
Hepatitis Viruses
HEPATITIS A AND E (Infectious and enteric non-A, non- B)
CHAPTER NINETEEN – PART TWO
HEPATITIS B, C, D AND G (Serum hepatitis, non A, non-B hepatitis and Delta Antigen)
Rabies
Arboviruses
CHAPTER TWENTY TWO
VIRAL DISEASES TRANSMITTED BY VERTEBRATES
APPENDIX
EBOLAAPPENDIX
NIPAH VIRUS AND LYCHEE FRUITS
Conventional and Unconventional Agents (Slow Viral Diseases)
central nervous system.
Progressive multifocal
leukoencephalopathy.
Sub-acute sclerosing panencephalitis (measles virus)
Prion diseases: Kuru,
Creutzfeld-Jakob disease
Bacteriophage
CORONAVIRUSES:
COLDS, SARS, MERS
AND COVID-19, THE DISEASE PANDEMIC THAT SWEPT THE WORLD IN EARLY 2020
Appendix A: Pandemics
Appendix B: Masks and Infection Control
PARVOVIRUSES AND FIFTH DISEASE
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