Basic Virology / Edward K. Wagner and Martinez J. Hewlett

Content

PART I?Virology and Viral Disease
CHAPTER 1?Introduction?The Impact of Viruses on Our View of Life
CHAPTER 2?An Outline of Virus Replication and Viral Pathogenesis
CHAPTER 3?Virus Disease in Populations and Individual Animals
CHAPTER 4?Patterns of Some Viral Diseases of Humans

PART II?Basic Properties of Viruses and Virus-Cell Interaction
CHAPTER 5?Virus Structure and Classification
CHAPTER 6?The Beginning and End of the Virus Replication Cycle
CHAPTER 7?Host Immune Response to Viral Infection: The Nature of the Vertebrate Immune Response
CHAPTER 8?Strategies to Protect Against and Combat Viral Infection

PART III?Working with Virus
CHAPTER 9?Visualization and Enumeration of Virus Particles
CHAPTER 10?Replicating and Measuring Biological Activity of Viruses
CHAPTER 11?Physical and Chemical Manipulation of the Structural Components of Viruses
CHAPTER 12?Characterization of Viral Products Expressed in the Infected Cell
CHAPTER 13?Viruses Use Cellular Processes to Express their Genetic Information

PART IV?Replication Patterns of Specific Viruses
CHAPTER 14?Replication of Positive-Sense RNA Viruses
CHAPTER 15?Replication Strategies of RNA Viruses Requiring RNA-Directed mRNA Transcription as the First Step in Viral Gene Expression
CHAPTER 16?Replication Strategies of Small and Medium-Sized DNA Viruses
CHAPTER 17?Replication of Some Nuclear-Replicating Eukaryotic DNA Viruses with Large Genomes
CHAPTER 18?Replication of Cytoplasmic DNA Viruses and ?Large? Bacteriophages
CHAPTER 19?Retroviruses: Converting RNA to DNA
CHAPTER 20?HIV and Related Lentiviruses
CHAPTER 21?Hepadnaviruses: Variations on the Retrovirus Theme

PART V?Viruses: New Approaches and New Problems
CHAPTER 22?The Molecular Genetics of Viruses
CHAPTER 23?Molecular Pathogenesis
CHAPTER 24?Viral Bioinformatics and Beyond
CHAPTER 25?Viruses and the Future?Problems and Promises

Includes Index : p. 454 - 466