Text Book of Virology

Contents: 1. Introduction to virology. 2. Structure and classification of viruses. 3. Multiplication. 4. Viral genetics. 5. Effects on cells. 6. Epidemiology and evolution. 7. Control of viral infections and diseases. 8. Chemotherapy of viral infections. 9. Immune defenses. 10. Nonspecific defenses. 11. Viral pathogenesis. 12. Adenoviruses. 13. Hepatitis viruses. 14. Herpesviruses. 15. Orthomyxoviruses. 16. Paramyxoviruses. 17. Picornaviruses. 18. Rhabdoviruses: rabies virus. 19. Poxviruses. 20. Rotaviruses, reoviruses, coltiviruses, and orbiviruses. 21. Parvoviruses. 22. Filoviruses. 23. Togaviruses: rubella virus. 24. Arenaviruses. 25. Bunyaviruses. 26. Coronaviruses. 27. Norwalk virus and other caliciviruses. 28. Tumor viruses. 29. Papovaviruses. 30. Alphaviruses (Togavirida) and Flaviviruses (Flaviviridae). 31. Human retroviruses. 32. Subacute spongiform unconventional virus encephalopathies. 33. Persistent viral infections. Index.

"Since long it was felt the need of text book of virology for the postgraduate as well as undergraduate students of paramedical, medical and basic microbiology of various teaching organizations. A lacuna has always been sensed particularly in the areas of diagnostics and therapeutic virology. Keeping the students demand of biomedical sciences, microbiology, biotechnology, nursing, physiotherapy, dental and other allied courses.

It is well tried to include basic mechanisms of life cycle, pathogenesis, diagnosis, immunity and structural aspects of viruses of diversified families, detailed caricature and illustration have also been framed to simplify the subject in depth."