Antigenic shift
... killed 40 million people worldwide. Influenza
virus which have undergone antigenic shift have also ... scientists pointed out that the avian influenza
virus might undergo an antigenic shift with the human flu
virus and cause a global influenza pandemic like the ...
Arbovirus
... An Arbovirus (short for Arthropod borne
virus ) is a
virus that is primarily transmitted by arthropods, ... complete):
Dengue fever
Ross River
virus
Vesicular ...
Avian influenza
... The causative agent is the avian influenza (AI)
virus . AI viruses all belong to the influenza
virus A genus of the Orthomyxoviridae family and ... clothing; however, there is no evidence that the
virus can survive in well cooked meat.
Cats are ...
DNA virus
... A DNA
virus is a
virus that has DNA as its genetic material and ... cells.
See also
Mimivirus
RNA
virus
...
Ebola
...
Reston ebolavirus
Sudan ebolavirus
Zaire
virus
Ebola hæmorrhagic fever (EHF — ... humans and some primates caused by the Ebola
virus .
Ebola was first discovered in 1976 , and ... showTocToggle("show","hide")
1 The Ebola
virus
1.1 Structure
1.2 ...
Flaviviridae
... Flavivirus (type species Yellow fever
virus , others include West Nile
virus )
Genus Hepacivirus (type species Hepatitis C
virus )
Genus Pestivirus (type species Bovine ...
Foot and mouth disease
... disease tends to occur locally, that is, the
virus is passed on to susceptible animals through ... infected animal products can harbor the
virus as well. Cows can also catch FMD from the semen ... acid, the viral genetic material). When such a
virus comes in contact with a host cell, it binds to a ...
Gene therapy
... the instructions producing the components of the
virus itself, viruses can carry additional genes ... and infect that patient with the virus, the
virus will spread the missing gene in all the cells of ... process is done by another enzyme carried in the
virus called integrase .
Now that the genetic ...
Hepatitis B
... B will be infected through sexual contact.
The
virus that causes hepatitis B is a member of the ... a circular, double-stranded DNA genome. The
virus is unique amongst the DNA viruses in that it uses ... treatment, a person's likelihood of clearing the
virus with treatment, a person's risk for developing ...
Lytic cycle
... a three-stage process.
Infection
When a
virus infects a cell, it first binds with the cell ... receptor molecules on the virus's surface. The
virus then injects its genetic material, which can be ... mRNA.
Replication and lysis
After many
virus copies are made, they are assembled into complete ...
Outbreak
...
virus outbreaks occur when a
virus bypasses infection control measures and a ... a branch of epidemiology and usually refers to
virus outbreaks that make people, animals, or plants ...
Retrovirus
... Lentivirus
Spumavirus
A retrovirus is a
virus which has a genome consisting of two identical ... by integrase into the host's genome. The
virus itself is just a storage form for its nucleic ... "proofreading" of DNA transcription, this kind of
virus mutates very often. This enables ...
RNA virus
... An RNA
virus is a
virus that either uses RNA as its genetic material ... during replication. For example, Hepatitis B
virus is classified as an RNA virus, even though its ...
Tobacco mosaic virus
... The Tobacco mosaic
virus (TMV) is an RNA
virus that infects plants , especially tobacco , ... on the leaves (thus the name). It was the first
virus to be discovered.
In 1883 Adolf Mayer first ...
Tobacco mosaic virus
... The Tobacco mosaic
virus (TMV) is an RNA
virus that infects plants , especially tobacco , ... on the leaves (thus the name). It was the first
virus to be discovered.
In 1883 Adolf Mayer first ...
Varicella zoster virus
... The varicella-zoster
virus (VZV), also known as human herpesvirus 3 ... double strand molecule, 125,000 nt long.
The
virus is very susceptible to disinfectants , notably ... Sharp & Dohme in the 1980s from the Oka strain
virus isolated and attenuated by Michiaki Takahashi ...
Vesicular stomatitis virus
... Vesicular stomatitis Indiana
virus
|- valign=top
|Species:|| Vesicular stomatitis New Jersey
virus
Vesicular stomatitis
virus (VSV) is a ...
Virology
... chemotherapy
Infection control measures
virus outbreaks
See also
molecular biology
phage , the
virus of bacteria / prokaryotes
viral plaque
Important publications in virology
virus classification
...
Virus classification
... is probably by the type of nucleic acid the
virus contains and its mode of expression. This ... they generally take the form of [Disease]
virus . The recognition of orders is very recent and ... Approximately 80 families and 4000 species of
virus are known.
Classification by genome type
...
Virus
... This article is concerned with
virus as a biological infectious particle; for other uses of the term see
virus (disambiguation) . An extensive treatment of the ... in English is found in the article Plural of
virus . A list of biological viruses has also been ...
Virus evolution
...
virus evolution is a subfield of evolutionary biology ... to changes in their environment within months.
virus evolution is an important aspect of the ... One of the main theoretical models to study
virus evolution is the quasispecies model .
See ...
Antibody
... exist in clonal lines that are specific to only one antigen , e.g., a
virus hull protein. In binding to such antigens, they can cause agglutination ... that recognize viruses can block these directly by their sheer size. The
virus will be unable to dock to a cell and infect it, hindered by the antibody. ...
Defective interfering particle
... Defective interfering particles ( DIPs ) are
virus particles that are missing part or all of their genome . Because of ... they depend on coinfection with a suitable helper virus. The helper
virus provides the gene functions that are absent from the DIPs.
...
Gene
... –10 7
Mycoplasma genitalium
500
580,000
DNA
virus
10–900
5,000–800,000
RNA
virus
1–25
1,000–23,000
Viroid
0–1
~500
...
Genome project
... , a plant , a fungus , a bacterium , an archaean , a protist or a
virus ), that is, the complete set of genes caried by this living being or ... Zea mays Maize (or corn)
Escherichia coli bacterium E.coli
SARS
virus
Arbacia punctulata the purple-spined sea urchin
Caenorhabditis ...
Hepadnaviridae
... here:
Genus Orthohepadnavirus ; type species: Hepatitis B
virus
Genus Avihepadnavirus ; type species: Duck hepatitis B
virus
Hepadnaviruses have very small genomes of circular, partially ...
Lipase
... and M. Hallek. 2002. The VP1 capsid protein of adeno-associated
virus type 2 is carrying a phospholipase A2 domain required for
virus infectivity. J Gen Virol 83:973-8.
Goni FM, Alonso A. 2002 ...
Yellow fever
... Viruses of Vertebrates: An Account of The Rockefeller Foundation
virus Program 1951-1970 . Yale University Press.
Downs, Wilbur H., et al. 1965.
virus diseases in the West Indies . Special edition of the Caribbean Medical ...
Antibiotic
... it actually is human biochemistry, and the possible targets of antiviral compounds are restricted to the relatively very few components of the actual
virus itself.
External links
Antibiotic News from Genome News Network (GNN)
Bruce Sterling's Bitter Resistance
JAAPA: New antibiotics ...
Apoptosis
... Functions of apoptosis
Cell damage or infection
Apoptosis can occur, for instance, when a cell is damaged beyond repair, or infected with a
virus . The "decision" for apoptosis can come from the cell itself, from its surrounding tissue or from a cell that is part of the immune system .
If a ...
Biology
... in 1997 in an attempt to standardize naming in the three areas, but it does not appear to have yet been formally adopted. The International Code of
virus Classification and Nomenclature (ICVCN) remains outside the BioCode.
Interactions of organisms
A food web , a generalization of the ...
Blood
... receiving a blood transfusion must have a blood type compatible with that of the donor.
Blood is an important vector of infection. AIDS , the
virus of which, HIV , is transmitted through contact between blood, semen , or the bodily secretions of an infected person. Hepatitis B and C are ...
Cytotoxic T cell
... white blood cell ) which has on its surface antigen receptors that can bind to fragments of antigens displayed by the Class I MHC molecules of
virus infected somatic cells and tumor cells.
Once activated by a MHC-antigen complex, T C cells release the protein perforin , which forms pores ...
Diabetes mellitus
... to reduce insulin production. The autoimmune attack may be triggered by reaction to an infection, for example by one of the viruses of the Coxsackie
virus family. A subtype of type 1 (identifiable by the presence of antibodies against beta cells) develops slowly and so is often confused with Type 2. In ...
Edward Jenner
... work was published as "An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae, a Disease Known by the Name of Cow Pox" in 1798 . The term
virus was introduced in the work aforementioned.
Jenner realised the long-term implications of vaccination, and looked forward to the day when smallpox ...
Hershey-Chase experiment
... Hershey and Martha Chase that identified DNA to be the genetic material of phages and, ultimately, of all organisms.
A phage is a small
virus that infects bacteria . It consists of a protein coat that encloses the genetic material. When a phage infects a bacterium, it inserts its ...
Immune system
... destroying pathogens, is an example of the former. AIDS ("Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome"), an infectious disease , caused by the HIV
virus that destroys CD4 + T cells, is an example of the latter. Immunosuppressive medication intentionally induces an immunodeficiency in order to prevent ...
Immunology
... and allergies ) or responds too intensively.
The most well-known disease that affects the immune system itself is AIDS , caused by the HIV
virus . AIDS is an immunodeficiency characterized by the lack of CD4+ ("helper") T cells and macrophages , which are destroyed by the HIV virus.
...
Louis Pasteur
... weakened diseases the generic name of vaccines , to honour Jenner's discovery. Pasteur produced the first vaccine for rabies by growing the
virus in rabbits and then weakening it by drying the affected nerve tissue. This vaccine was first used on 9-year old Joseph Meister on July 6 , 1885 ...
Max Delbr
...
In 1941, he married Mary Bruce, with whom he had four children.
In 1942, he and Salvador Luria demonstrated that bacterial resistance to
virus infection is caused by random mutation and not adaptive change. For that, they were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1969 , ...