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| Preface | |
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| Abbreviations used in this book | |
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| Greek letters used in this book | |
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| Colour coding for molecules | |
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| Viruses and their importance | |
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| Viruses are ubiquitous on Earth | |
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| Reasons for studying viruses | |
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| The nature of viruses | |
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| The remainder of the book | |
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| Methods used in virology | |
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| Introduction to methods used in virology | |
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| Cultivation of viruses | |
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| Isolation of viruses | |
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| Centrifugation | |
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| Structural investigations of cells and virions | |
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| Electrophoretic techniques | |
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| Detection of viruses and virus components | |
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| Infectivity assays | |
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| Virus genetics | |
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| Virus structure | |
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| Introduction to virus structure | |
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| Virus genomes | |
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| Virus proteins | |
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| Capsids | |
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| Virion membranes | |
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| Occlusion bodies | |
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| Other virion components | |
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| Virus transmission | |
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| Introduction to virus transmission | |
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| Transmission of plant viruses | |
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| Transmission of vertebrate viruses | |
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| Transmission of invertebrate viruses | |
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| Permissive cells | |
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| Attachment and entry of viruses into cells | |
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| Overview of virus replication | |
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| Animal viruses | |
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| Bacteriophages | |
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| Transcription, translation and transport | |
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| Introduction to transcription, translation and transport | |
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| Transcription of virus genomes | |
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| Transcription in eukaryotes | |
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| Translation in eukaryotes | |
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| Transport in eukaryotic cells | |
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| Transcription and translation in bacteria | |
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| Virus genome replication | |
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| Overview of virus genome replication | |
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| Locations of virus genome replication in eukaryotic cells | |
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| Initiation of genome replication | |
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| Polymerases | |
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| DNA replication | |
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| Double-stranded RNA replication | |
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| Single-stranded RNA replication | |
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| Reverse transcription | |
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| Assembly and exit of virions from cells | |
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| Introduction to assembly and exit of virions from cells | |
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| Nucleocapsid assembly | |
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| Formation of virion membranes | |
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| Virion exit from the infected cell | |
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| Outcomes of infection for the host | |
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| Introduction to outcomes of infection for the host | |
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| Factors affecting outcomes of infection | |
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| Non-productive infections | |
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| Productive infections | |
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| Classification and nomenclature of viruses | |
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| History of virus classification and nomenclature | |
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| Modern virus classification and nomenclature | |
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| Baltimore classification of viruses | |
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| Herpesviruses (and other dsDNA viruses) | |
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| Introduction to herpesviruses | |
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| The human herpesviruses | |
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| The herpesvirus virion | |
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| HSV-1 genome organization | |
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| HSV-1 replication | |
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| Latent herpesvirus infection | |
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| Other dsDNA viruses | |
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| Parvoviruses (and other ssDNA viruses) | |
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| Introduction to parvoviruses | |
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| Examples of parvoviruses | |
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| Parvovirus virion | |
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| Parvovirus replication | |
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| Other ssDNA viruses | |
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| Reoviruses (and other dsRNA viruses) | |
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| Introduction to reoviruses | |
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| Rotavirus virion | |
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| Rotavirus replication | |
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| Other dsRNA viruses | |
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| Picornaviruses (and other plus-strand RNA viruses) | |
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| Introduction to picornaviruses | |
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| Some important picornaviruses | |
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| The picornavirus virion | |
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| Picornavirus replication | |
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| Picornavirus recombination | |
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| Picornavirus experimental systems | |
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| Other plus-strand RNA viruses | |
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| Rhabdoviruses (and other minus-strand RNA viruses) | |
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| Introduction to rhabdoviruses | |
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| Some important rhabdoviruses | |
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