Rev. ed. of: Basic virology / Edward K. Wagner, Martinez J. Hewlett. 2nd ed. 2004

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction : the impact of viruses on our view of life -- An outline of virus replication and viral pathogenesis -- Virus disease in populations and individual animals -- Patterns of some viral diseases of humans -- Virus structure and classification -- The beginning and end of the virus replication cycle -- Host immune response to viral infection : the nature of the vertebrate immune response -- Strategies to protect against and combat viral infection -- Visualization and enumeration of virus particles -- Replicating and measuring biological activity of viruses -- Physical and chemical manipulation of the structural components of viruses -- Characterization of viral products expressed in the infected cell -- Viruses use cellular processes to express their genetic information -- Replication of positive-sense RNA viruses -- Replication strategies of RNA viruses requiring RNA-directed mRNA transcription as the first step in viral gene expression -- Replication strategies of small and medium-sized DNA viruses -- Replication of some nuclear-replicating eukaryotic DNA viruses with large genomes -- Replication of cytoplasmic DNA viruses and "large" bacteriophages -- Retroviruses : converting RNA to DNA -- HIV and related lentiviruses -- Hepadnaviruses : variations on the retrovirus theme -- The molecular genetics of viruses -- Molecular pathogenesis -- Viral bioinformatics and beyond -- Viruses and the future : problems and promises