VIROLOGY: Mapping Virus History

A history of experimental virology

ALFRED GRAFE, A history ofexperimental virology, transl. Elvira Rechendorf, Berlin, New York and London, Springer-Verlag, 1991, pp. xi, 343, DM 98.00 (3-540-51925-4). This is a virologist's book more than a historian's. Perhaps a better description would be "an introductory historical text for students of virology". As such it is very thorough, very factual, and highly technical, and would be a...

The history of tumor virology.

In the century since its inception, the field of tumor virology has provided groundbreaking insights into the causes of human cancer. Peyton Rous founded this scientific field in 1911 by discovering an avian virus that induced tumors in chickens; however, it took 40 years for the scientific community to comprehend the effect of this seminal finding. Later identification of mammalian tumor virus...

Portraits of viruses: a history of virology

The focus of the volume then shifts fully to the disease environments of the New World. Thorough and persuasive articles examine the previously unexplained ailment of dry belly ache, interpreted here as the result of lead poisoning; consider the effect of improved nutrition on a normally malnourished West Indian slave population; and Donald Cooper confirms that the susceptibility to cholera pre...

Virology 101 (UNIX System Virus)

There is nothing mysterious about computer viruses. A working, but easily observable, virus can be written in a few lines of code. Although particular virus attacks may be guarded against, no general defense within one domain of reference is possible; viruses are a natural consequence of stored-program computation. Like other hazards of technology, their threat may be mitigated by cautious beha...

Varicella-Zoster Virus Virology and Clinical Management