Here is our list of articles about Viruses. More will be added soon.
Viruses
Viruses are submicroscopic infectious agents that require a host cell to replicate, making them unique among biological entities...
Dengue Virus
Dengue virus (DENV) is one of the most medically significant arthropod-borne viruses affecting humans and is responsible for hundreds of millions of infections annually worldwide...
Ebola
Ebola is a severe and often fatal viral disease caused by viruses belonging to the genus Ebolavirus. The illness primarily affects humans and nonhuman primates and is known for causing outbreaks of hemorrhagic fever...
Epstein–Barr Virus
Epstein–Barr virus (EBV) is a highly prevalent human herpesvirus best known as the primary cause of infectious mononucleosis (“mono” or glandular fever)...
Hantavirus
Hantaviruses are a group of zoonotic RNA viruses that belong to the family Hantaviridae and are primarily maintained in rodent reservoirs. These viruses are of considerable medical and epidemiological importance because they can cause severe and sometimes fatal disease in humans...
Hunter Virus
The term “Hunter virus” is occasionally used informally in reference to hantavirus-like pathogens associated with rodent reservoirs and zoonotic transmission. Although “Hunter virus” is not currently recognized as an official viral species by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV), the name has appeared in regional discussions and nonstandard reporting concerning hantavirus variants...
Hepatitis A
Hepatitis A virus (HAV) is a highly transmissible human pathogen that primarily infects the liver and causes acute hepatitis A, an inflammatory disease of hepatic tissue. Unlike several other hepatitis viruses, HAV does not produce chronic infection, yet it remains a major global public health concern...
Hepatitis B
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a major human pathogen that infects the liver and causes hepatitis B, a disease ranging from acute self-limiting infection to chronic liver disease, cirrhosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma...
Hepatitis C
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a globally significant human pathogen that primarily infects hepatocytes in the liver and causes hepatitis C, a disease that frequently progresses from acute infection to chronic liver disease, cirrhosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma...
Hepatitis D
Hepatitis D virus (HDV), also known as hepatitis delta virus, is a unique and medically significant human pathogen that infects the liver and causes hepatitis D. Unlike other human hepatitis viruses, HDV is a defective virus that requires the presence of hepatitis B virus (HBV) for its replication and transmission...
Hepatitis E
Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is an enterically transmitted virus that primarily infects hepatocytes and causes hepatitis E, an acute inflammatory liver disease...
Human Immunodeficiency Virus - HIV
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is a chronic viral pathogen that attacks the human immune system, particularly cells involved in adaptive immune defense. Since its recognition in the early 1980s, HIV has become one of the most extensively studied infectious agents in medical history...
Human Papillomavirus - HPV
Human papillomaviruses (HPVs) are a diverse group of non-enveloped DNA viruses that infect epithelial tissues in humans. They are among the most common sexually transmitted infections worldwide and are of major medical importance...
Measles Virus
Measles virus, also known as rubeola virus, is one of the most contagious viral pathogens known to infect humans. It is the causative agent of measles, an acute febrile illness characterized by rash, respiratory symptoms, and systemic immune effects...
Norovirus
Noroviruses, commonly abbreviated as NoV and historically referred to as Norwalk viruses, are a group of highly contagious RNA viruses that represent one of the leading causes of acute gastroenteritis worldwide...
Varicella-Zoster Virus
Varicella-zoster virus (VZV) is a highly infectious human herpesvirus responsible for two clinically distinct diseases: varicella, commonly known as chickenpox, and herpes zoster, commonly known as shingles...
Zika Virus
Zika virus is a mosquito-borne flavivirus that emerged as a major global public health concern during the mid-2010s due to its association with congenital abnormalities and neurological disease...
1918 Influenza Pandemic
Here our series of articles about the 1918 Influenza pandemic...
Bacteriophages
Bacteriophages, commonly referred to as phages, are viruses that specifically infect and replicate within bacterial cells. They are among the most abundant biological entities on Earth...
CTX Phage
The CTX phage is a filamentous bacteriophage of major medical importance due to its direct role in the pathogenesis of cholera...
Ff Bacteriophage
The Ff group (including f1, fd, M13 and ZJ/2) represents a class of filamentous bacteriophages that infect Escherechia coli carrying the F (fertility) plasmid...
Ernest Hanbury Hankin
Hankin occupies an important place in the history of microbiology because of his early observations of antibacterial agents in river water that likely represented naturally occurring bacteriophages...
Félix d'Hérelle
Félix d'Hérelle (25 April 1873 – 22 February 1949) was a French-Canadian microbiologist best known as the co-discoverer of bacteriophages...
Lambda Phage
The Lambda phage is one of the most extensively studied bacteriophages and serves as a foundational model for understanding viral life cycles, gene regulation, and host–virus interactions...
Salvador Luria
Salvador Edward Luria, born Salvatore Luria on August 13, 1912, was a foundational figure in the development of molecular biology and microbial genetics...
T-series Bacteriophages
The T-series bacteriophages are a group of well-characterized viruses that infect Escherichia coli and have played a central role in the development of modern molecular biology...
Plant Viruses
Plant viruses are a diverse group of infectious agents that specifically target plant hosts...