Desk Encyclopedia of General Virology

Section 1. GENERAL TOPICS
History of virology: bacteriophages
History of virology: plant viruses
History of virology: vertebrate viruses
Nature of viruses
Origin of viruses
Ribozymes
Virus species
Quasispecies
Virus databases
Phylogeny of viruses
Evolution of viruses
Taxonomy, classification and nomenclature of viruses
Virus classification by pairwise sequence comparison
Prions of vertebrates
Viruses and bioterrorism

Section 2. VIRIONS
Principles of virion structure
Structure of non-enveloped virions
Electron microscopy of viruses
Cryo-electron microcopy
Assembly of non-enveloped virions
Assembly of enveloped virions
Assembly of bacterial viruses
Genome packaging of bacterial viruses
Viral membranes
Mimivirus

Section 3. NUCLEIC ACIDS
Recombination
Satellite nucleic acids and viruses
Retrotransposons of vertebrates
Defective interfering viruses
Interfering RNAs
Viruses as vectors in gene therapy

Section 4. VIRUS INFECTION
Viral receptors
Virus entry to bacterial cells
Membrane fusion
Replication of viruses
Persistent and latent viral infection
Apoptosis and virus infection
Viral pathogenesis
Antiviral agents
Diagnosis using serological and molecular approaches
Diagnosis using microarrays
Disease surveillance

Section 5. IMMUNE RESPONSES
Innate immunity
Defeating innate immunity
Antigen presentation
Antigenicity and immunogenicity of viral proteins
Cytokines and chemokines
Cell-mediated immunity to viruses
Antibody - mediated immunity to viruses
Orthomyxovirus antigen structure
Antigenic variation
Vaccine strategies
DNA Vaccines
Vaccine safety
Neutralization of infectivity
Immunopathology

Section 6. DESCRIPTION AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF SOME VIRUSES
Adenoviruses : molecular biology
Baculoviruses : molecular biology of granuloviruses
Baculoviruses : molecular biology of nucleopolyhedroviruses
Coronaviruses : molecular biology
Hepatitis virus B : molecular biology
Herpes simplex viruses :