Basic Virology

ISBN-13: 9781119314059 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 576 str.

David C. (University of Florida) Bloom

Spis treści

PrefaceAcknowledgementsPART I VIROLOGY AND VIRAL DISEASEChapter 1 Introduction - The Impact of Viruses on Our View of LifeChapter 2 An Outline of Virus Replication and Viral PathogenesisChapter 3 Virus Disease in Populations and Individual AnimalsChapter 4 Patterns of Some Viral Diseases of HumansPART II BASIC PROPERTIES OF VIRUSES AND VIRUS-CELL INTERACTIONChapter 5 Virus Structure and ClassificationChapter 6 The Beginning and End of the Virus Replication CycleChapter 7 The Innate Immune Response: Early Defense Against PathogensChapter 8 Strategies to Protect Against and Combat Viral InfectionPART III WORKING WITH VIRUSChapter 9 Visualization and Enumeration of Virus ParticlesChapter 10 Replicating and Measuring Biological Activity of VirusesChapter 11 Physical and Chemical Manipulation of the Structural Components of VirusesChapter 12 Characterization of Viral Products Expressed in the Infected CellChapter 13 Viruses Use Cellular Processes to Express their Genetic InformationPART IV REPLICATION PATTERNS OF SPECIFIC VIRUSESChapter 14 Replication of Positive-Sense RNA VirusesChapter 15 Replication Strategies of RNA Viruses Requiring RNA-directed mRNA Transcription as the First Step in Viral Gene ExpressionChapter 16 Replication Strategies of Small and Medium-sized DNA VirusesChapter 17 Replication of Some Nuclear-replicating Eukaryotic DNA Viruses with Large GenomesChapter 18 Replication of Cytoplasmic DNA Viruses and "Large" BacteriophagesChapter 19 Retroviruses: Converting RNA to DNAChapter 20 Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 (HIV-1) and Related LentivirusesChapter 21 Hepadnaviruses: Variations on the Retrovirus ThemePART V MOLECULAR GENETICS OF VIRUSESChapter 22 The Molecular Genetics of VirusesChapter 23 Molecular PathogenesisChapter 24 Viral BioinformaticsChapter 25 Viruses and the Future - Problems and PromisesAppendix - Resource CenterTechnical GlossaryIndex

O autorze

MARTINEZ J. HEWLETT is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Arizona.DAVID CAMERINI is Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at the University of California Irvine.DAVID C. BLOOM is Associate Professor in the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology at University of Florida.