TY - BOOK AU - Wagner, Edward K. AU - Hewlett, Martinez J. TI - Basic Virology / SN - 0632042990 U1 - 579.2 22 PY - 1999/// CY - USA PB - Blackwell Science, KW - Viruses KW - Virus Diseases KW - Virology KW - Medical Virology N1 - 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 ER -