Mark Twain once remarked that the reports of his death were greatly exaggerated. So too, the death of virology. In certain quarters, it is now fashionable to declare the passing of virology. “Viruses are retro,” a faculty colleague once told me, deadly serious. We have heard this before. In 1967, the U.S. Surgeon General allegedly proclaimed, “The time has come to close the book on infectious d...

Walter Reed (1851-1902) Imperial Bacteriology Institute c o r r e c t l y d e m o n s t r a t e d t h a t the etiological agent of rabies was not a protozoan, but a filterable virus a n d t h e a r g u m e n t a b o u t t h e s ignif icance of Negri ’s bodies became wider and more intense, w i t h e m i n e n t p a r a s i t o l o g i s t s taking conflicting positions. For many years, document...

Transfer factor (TF) is a lymphocyte extract of low molecular weight capable of transferring antigen-specific information to T-lymphocytes. A number of reports have documented its efficacy in the control of acute viral infections, particularly those associated with herpes viruses. There have been also several reports of clinical trials utilizing Epstein-Barr Virus-specific TF in associated mali...

Department of Virology, University College London School of Life and Medical Sciences, London, Department of Virology, King’s College Hospital, London, Department of Haematology, Freeman Road Hospital, Newcastle, West of Scotland specialist virology centre, Gartnavel General Hospital, Glasgow, Birmingham HPA Laboratory, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, Birmingham, Department of Haematology, King...

SPECIALTY GRAND CHALLENGE article Front. Virol., 25 March 2021Sec. Translational Virology https://doi.org/10.3389/fviro.2021.663235

Basic Properties and Clinical Applications of Transfer Factor, held during October, 1975. The Academic Press Rapid Manuscript Reproduction series brings us such symposia in book form while the information is still fresh and not dated even to the specialist. Certainly in the case of this volume it is an admirable achievement, for this is truly the most recent information on nearly all aspects of...

As the name implies, this book attempts to give a broad picture of new developments in the field of virology, and in this it succeeds admirably. The volume represents the proceedings of a symposium, dedicated to the late Dr. F. R. Beaudette, an outstanding virologist in the field of animal virus diseases. A representative sample of new discoveries and new problems in virology-in the basic scien...