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Hallmark Features
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- Most accessible format in the market. Designed for use in university-level virology courses taken by students majoring in biomedical sciences and microbiology. Written in a simple and clear style for students with a background in cell and molecular biology.
- Student-friendly learning tools provide key assets to help students focus on the important information: chapter outlines, informative subheadings, key terms, extensive glossary, selected journal references.
- Unique, applied chapter stories. Chapters covering specific virus families are designed to tell a story about a virus, explain its replication cycle, and portray the “personality” of the virus. Important information on initial discovery, virus diseases, hosts infected, and virus transmission is included.
- Evolutionary boxes feature exciting and current developments in molecular virology.
- Comprehensive, illustrative art program. The book contains numerous two-color figures that focus on individual steps in virus replication and help draw the student's attention to important concepts.
- Introductory section covers definition of viruses, history of virus research, detection and measurement of viruses, virus growth cycle, virus structure, the world of viruses, evolution of viruses, and virus entry.
- A separate section on Bacteriophages emphasizes their importance in basic discoveries in molecular biology and their contributions to molecular tools used in research laboratories.
- Numerous chapters cover important human pathogens such as Ebola virus, hepatitis viruses, herpes viruses, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), influenza virus, measles virus, poliovirus, SARS coronavirus, smallpox virus, West Nile virus, and yellow fever virus.
- Special chapters on Viroids (small infectious nucleic acids that do not code for proteins but cause important plant diseases) and Prions (infectious proteins that lack nucleic acids but cause mad cow disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans).
- A concluding section includes chapters on practical applications in virology: Interferons, Antiviral Chemotherapy, Virus Vectors, and Antiviral Vaccines.
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