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Virology is the scientific study of biological viruses. It is a subfield of microbiology that focuses on their detection, structure, classification and evolution, their methods of infection and exploitation of host cells for reproduction, their interaction with host organism physiology and immunity, the diseases they cause, the techniques to ...
Daniel O’Connell Griffin (born 15 July 1967) is an American infectious disease specialist. He is president of the nonprofit organization Parasites Without Borders. [1]Co-director of Life Science podcast network Microbe.TV, [2] Griffin broadcasts a weekly COVID Clinical Update [3] as part of This Week in Virology (TWiV) podcasts.
Often simply called an antiviral. A class of antimicrobial medication used specifically for treating diseases caused by viral infections rather than ones caused by bacteria or other infectious agents. Unlike most antibiotics, antivirals typically do not destroy their target viruses but instead inhibit their development. They are distinct from virucides. assembly The construction of the virus ...
Ep. # Air Date Guest(s)/Topic Remarks AGB Nielsen Ratings [4]; 1 December 5, 2015 No guests: Pilot episode Special Guests: Gwon Dam-hye (gynaecologist), Kim Yeo-won(script writer for the show)
In 2020, Baric contributed to establishing the official nomenclature and taxonomic classification of SARS-CoV-2. [16] In 2021, he was elected member of the U. S. National Academy of Sciences . [ 17 ]
[8] [9] The name was coined by June Almeida and David Tyrrell who first observed and studied human coronaviruses. [10] The word was first used in print in 1968 by an informal group of virologists in the journal Nature to designate the new family of viruses. [ 7 ]
The methods used for clinical viral metagenomics are not standardized, but guidelines have been published by the European Society for Clinical Virology. [ 32 ] [ 33 ] A mixture of different sequencing platforms are used for clinical viral metagenomics, the most common being instruments from Illumina and Oxford Nanopore Technologies .
Rubella virus (RuV) is the pathogenic agent of the disease rubella, transmitted only between humans via the respiratory route, and is the main cause of congenital rubella syndrome when infection occurs during the first weeks of pregnancy.