Table of Contents:
  • The nature of viruses
  • The cultivation and assay of viral infectivity
  • Virus replication
  • Pathogenesis of viral infection
  • Resistance and immunity to virus infection
  • Immunological protection
  • Diagnostic virology and the collection and submission of suitable samples
  • Systematic virology
  • Poxviridae
  • Iridoviridae
  • Herpesviridae
  • Adenoviridae
  • Papovaviridae
  • Hepadnaviridae
  • Parvoviridae
  • Paramyxoviridae
  • Orthomyxoviridae
  • Coronaviridae
  • Rhabdoviridae
  • Filoviridae
  • Retroviridae
  • Reoviridae
  • Birnaviridae
  • Bunyaviridae
  • Togaviridae and flaviviridae
  • Picornaviridae
  • Calciviridae
  • Unclassified viral diseases and the spongiform encephalopathy agents.