Medical virology : a practical approach /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Desselberger, U.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : IRL Press at Oxford University Press, [1995]
Series:Practical approach series ; 147.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Traditional techniques of viral diagnosis / C.R. Madeley
  • Immunoassays / J.J. Gray and T.G. Wreghitt
  • Nucleic acid detection / Jonathan P. Clewley
  • Blotting of viral proteins / Sally E. Adams and Nigel R. Burns
  • Polymerase chain reaction / P. Simmonds
  • Design and testing of antiviral compounds / Derek Kinchington, Hillar Kangro, and Donald J. Jeffries
  • Molecular epidemiology / U. Desselberger
  • Evolutionary analysis of viruses / Andrew J. Leigh Brown.
  • Traditional techniques of viral diagnosis
  • Rationale of virus diagnosis
  • Detection of virus or viral antigen
  • Developments in diagnosis
  • Immunoassays
  • Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays
  • Radioimmunoassay
  • Luminescence assays
  • Monoclonal antibodies
  • Evaluation of a commercial immunoassay
  • Semi-automation and full automation of serological tests
  • Quality assurance
  • Nucleic acid detection
  • Introduction
  • Preparation
  • Blotting
  • Production and purification of probes
  • Labelling of probes.
  • Hybridization and detection
  • Example: parvovirus B19 DNA
  • Trouble shooting
  • Significance of viral nucleic acid detection
  • Blotting of viral proteins
  • Introduction
  • Isolation of viral proteins
  • Blotting
  • Applications
  • Polymerase chain reaction
  • Principles of the polymerase chain reaction
  • Sample preparation
  • Amplification reactions
  • Detection of amplified product
  • Applications of PCR
  • Design and testing of antiviral compounds
  • Introduction
  • Assays for virus infectivity
  • Toxicity testing in cell culture
  • Measurement of compound efficacy in tissue culture
  • Activity against isolated viral enzymes
  • Molecular epidemiology
  • Introduction
  • Use of polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis to separate the segments of RNA viruses
  • Oligonucleotide maps of RNA virus genomes
  • Analysis of restriction endonuclease fragments of DNA virus genomes by PAGE
  • Nucleic acid hybridization techniques
  • Polymerase chain reactions.
  • DNA sequencing
  • Monoclonal antibodies
  • Virus evolution
  • Molecular pathology
  • Evolutionary analysis of viruses
  • Introduction
  • Measures of genetic distance
  • Character-based methods
  • Statistical significance of tree topologies
  • Software for phylogenetic analyses
  • Addresses of suppliers.