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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 ...
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 ...
Virology is the study of viruses and their properties. The main article for this category is Virology . Pages in this category should be moved to subcategories where applicable.
Virus classification showing major ranks This is a list of biological virus families and subfamilies. See also Comparison of computer viruses. This is an alphabetical list of biological virus families and subfamilies; it includes those families and subfamilies listed by the ICTV 2023 report.
Virus classification. Virus classification is the process of naming viruses and placing them into a taxonomic system similar to the classification systems used for cellular organisms.
Illustration of a SARS-CoV-2 virion. A virus is a tiny infectious agent that reproduces inside the cells of living hosts.When infected, the host cell is forced to rapidly produce thousands of identical copies of the original virus.
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. There are also ...
Anesthesiologist with a background in virology, tropical medicine and biological warfare. 01 May 2010 Domorito: Talk: Interested in the general topic of virology, but don't have a lot of experience, so you'll usually see me adding a sentence or two to stubs or making pages less complicated sounding, mostly behind the scenes stuff. 27 November 2024