Ideal for those seeking a solid understanding of the basic principles in this rapidly developing field, Basic Virology offers a comprehensive introduction to the fundamentals of virology. Featuring an enhanced art program now in full-color, the new edition has been updated throughout.

Features:

• Third edition incorporates additional reading suggestions, expanded review questions, chapter outlines and full-color artwork
• Contains new chapters dealing with viruses and cancer, generation and use of recombinant viruses and virus-like particles, viral evolution, network biology and viruses, and animal models and transgenics, as well as a chapter devoted to HIV and AIDS
• Downloadable artwork, original animations and online resources are available at recommended website

Contents

Part I: Virology and Viral Disease

1. Introduction - the Impact of Viruses on Our View of Life
2. An Outline of Virus Replication and Viral Pathogenesis
3. Virus Disease in Populations and Individual Animals
4. Patterns of Some Viral Diseases of Humans

Part II: Basic Properties of Viruses and Virus-Cell Interaction

5. Virus Structure and Classification
6. The Beginning and End of the Virus Replication Cycle
7. Host Immune Response to Viral Infection - The Nature of the Vertebrate Immune Response
8. Strategies to Protect Against and Combat Viral Infection

Part III: Working with Virus

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

Part IV: Replication Patterns of Specific Viruses

14. Replication of Positive-sense RNA Viruses
15. Replication Strategies of RNA Viruses Requiring RNA-directed mRNA
16. Replication Strategies of Small and Medium-sized DNA Viruses
17. Replication of Some Nuclear-replicating Eukaryotic DNA Viruses with Large
18. Replication of Cytoplasmic DNA Viruses and "Large" Bacteriophages
19. Retroviruses: Converting RNA to DNA
20. Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 (HIV-1) and Related Lentiviruses
21. Hepadnaviruses: Variations on the Retrovirus Theme

Part V: Viruses: New Approaches and New Problems

22. The Molecular Genetics of Viruses
23. Molecular Pathogenesis
24. Viral Bioinformatics and Beyond
25. Viruses and the Future - Promises and Problems

Index

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