Principles and Practice of Clinical Virology

Download or read book Principles and Practice of Clinical Virology written by Arie J. Zuckerman and published by Wiley-Interscience. This book was released on 2000 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virology is that branch of microbiology concerned with viruses and diseases. These groups of minute infectious agents are, with certain exceptions (e.g., poxviruses) lack an independent metabolism and replicate only within living host cells. Like living organisms, they reproduce with genetic continuity and also mutate. Normally classified into three subgroups on the basis of host specificity (bacterial viruses, animal viruses, and plant viruses), they are also classified by origin, mode of transmission, symptoms produced, and where first located.