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Specific Virus Information:
Myovirus
Nodavirus
Orthomyxoviruses -- Influenza Viruses
Paramyxoviridae -- Para-influenza, Measles Viruses
- Paramyxoviruses- from our own course and tutorial page, courtesy of A. J. Cann
- Paramyxoviridae - This page is dedicated to Paramyxoviridae including Nipah Virus, Hendra Virus, Equine Morbillivirus(EMV), Lyssavirus and Menangle virus.
- Paramyxovirus Images- Electron micrographs from Linda Stannard at UCT.
- Paramyxoviruses- A Tutorial from the University of Leicester (UK)
Paramyxoviruses -- Para-influenza Viruses
- Para-influenza virus Information from the National Center for Infectious Diseases, National Respiratory and Enteric Virus Surveillance Program.
Rubulaviruses -- Mumps Viruses
- Mumps the Virus - a student's summary of mumps pages on the net.
- Mumps Fact Sheet - From the Epidemiology and Disease Control Program for the State of Maryland.
- Mumps - from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Mumps virus Infections - a good description of the clinical effects and symptoms of mumps virus infection from KidsHealth.org - a project of The Nemours Center For Children's Health Media.
- Mumps Fact Sheet- from the Epidemiology and Disease Control Program for the State of Maryland.
Morbilliviruses -- Measles Viruses
- The Shaila's Lab is working on Rinderpest virus and PPRV, from the paramyxoviridae family.
- Measles - from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Measles Fact Sheet - From the Epidemiology and Disease Control Program for the State of Maryland.
- Measles Infections - a good description of the clinical effects and symptoms of measles (rubeola) virus infection from KidsHealth.org - a project of The Nemours Center For Children's Health Media.
- Measles- A text file from the New York Department of Health
Pneumovirinae -- Respiratory Syncytial Viruses
- Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infections (RSV) - a good description of the clinical effects and symptoms of respiratory syncytial virus infection from KidsHealth.org - a project of The Nemours Center For Children's Health Media.
- Respiratory Syncytial Viruses Fact Sheet from the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services Regulation and Licensure
- RSV Protection Information Center - An informative website providing updated research regarding the dangers of Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) in susceptible newborns and possible treatments.
- Pneumovirus Laboratory Homepage (PVL), University of Warwick, Dept. of Biological Sciences. This page contains information about pneumoviruses (human RSV and avian pneumovirus) and other Paramyxoviridae. Also contains links to molecular biology/virology techniques.
- RSV Information from the National Center for Infectious Diseases, National Respiratory and Enteric Virus Surveillance Program. This site also includes a section about RSV in the Child Care Setting.
- RSV Info Center - An informational website geared towards physicians on Respiratory Syncytial Virus diagnosis, management and sequelae. Includes an RSV research library and resources for healthcare providers. This site has also proven very popular with parents.
Papovaviridae
Papillomaviruses
- Warts, Genital (Condyloma) Fact Sheet - From the Epidemiology and Disease Control Program for the State of Maryland.
- VIDA: The Virus Database (VIDA) at University College London organises all available sequences from different families of animal viruses: herpesvirus, poxvirus, papillomavirus, coronavirus and arterivirus. The ORF products are clustered into homologous protein families via an automated procedure that uses the sequence similarity search tool BLAST and the MKDOM program. Conserved regions in the families can be retrieved in the form of multiple alignments. Links exist to a number of databases: Swissprot, EMBL and the structural databases CATH and PDB.
- Papillomavirus Images from Linda Stannard at UCT
- Human Papillomavirus Database at Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Turtle Trax - Sickbay: provides information on fibropapillomas, a disease of green sea turtles. It is now almost certain a virus is the cause. The Sickbay provides numerous photos of turtles suffering from the tumours so characteristic of this disease. All photos are of sea turtles in the wild.
Parvoviridae
Phycodnaviridae
- World of Chlorella Viruses - This is the Web site for the Jim Van Etten lab at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. It contains a brief history of the chlorella viruses (family Phycodnaviridae, genus Chlorovirus), a gallery of images of the virus, a list of all the publications (that we know of) about chlorella viruses, and links to other sites dealing with chlorella viruses.
Picornaviridae
- Picornaviruses- from our own course and tutorial page, courtesy of A. J. Cann
- Picornaviruses- A Tutorial from the University of Leicester (UK)
- The Picornavirus Home Page from Nick Knowles at the Institute for Animal Health, Pirbright Laboratory, UK
- Picornaviral Proteases cleavage sites are predicted utilizing a neural network at the Center for Biological Sequence Analysis in Denmark.
- ICTV Picornavirus Study Group.
- Institute of Biochemistry - Picornaviruses - This site is in the Homepage of the Institute of Biochemistry of the medical faculty in Vienna, Austria. One of the four research groups is focusing on the molecular biology of Picornaviruses (mainly human Rhinoviruses).
- The European Study Group on the Molecular Biology of Picornaviruses - EUROPIC - annual meeting information.
Aphthovirus -- Foot and Mouth Disease Viruses (Animal)
- Foot-and-mouth disease virus homepage, at Institute for Animal Health, (Pirbright Laboratory) is designated the World Reference Laboratory for Foot-and-Mouth Disease by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations and the Office International des Epizooties (OIE).
- Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations:
- Office International des Epizooties (OIE):
- Foot-and-Mouth Disease Page from the Australian Animal Health Laboratory
- Foot-and-Mouth Disease Page from the Pig Disease Information Centre (UK)
- Foot-and-Mouth Disease from the Emergency Preparedness Information eXchange, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada.
Cardiovirus -- EMC-like Viruses
- Cardiovirus Home Page, a Page devoted to the Cardiovirus genus. Includes tables of all known isolations of EMC virus (with full reference list), pointers to sequence data, etc.
Enterovirus -- Polio, Hepatitis A and Coxsackie Viruses, etc.
- Update of Enterovirus Infection in Infants and Children - from the Pediatric Bulletin with Bimonthly reviews of current trends in the field of Pediatrics.
- Enteroviruses - non polio - a World Health Organization Fact Sheet
- Swine vesicular disease
Coxsackie viruses (A and B)
- Viral Myocarditis is an inflammatory disease of the heart muscle that can be caused by viruses, the most common being coxsackie B viruses and in children adenoviruses as well. The site provides extensive reading for those interested in related topics, displays a coxsackievirion and heart damage done by coxsackievirus B3, and links to other related sites, and more.
- Myocarditis, heart, viral, possibly adenovirus- Cardiovascular Pathology image from the University of Illinois' Urbana Atlas of Pathology.
- Coxsackie Virus Infections - a good description of the clinical effects and symptoms of coxsackievirus infection from KidsHealth.org - a project of The Nemours Center For Children's Health Media.
- Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease (Coxsackie viral infection) - New York State Department of Health Communicable Disease Fact Sheet.
- Viral Meningitis Fact Sheet - From the Epidemiology and Disease Control Program for the State of Maryland.
- An Immune Response to a Virus Infection - This site entitled, "Virus Interactions with White Blood Cells of the Immune System," is a layman's summary of a dissertation studying of splenic immune responses to coxsackievirus B infection.
- Enterovirus Outbreak - Information and links on the recent outbreak(1997) in Sarawak, Malaysia. This page is a site dedicated to enteroviruses, particularly enterovirus 71 and coxsackie group of viruses, as well as some links to adenoviruses. It will also be a site for viral myocarditis and hand,foot and mouth disease. General links to viruses and virus or epidemiological related resources and articles will be maintained.
- Hand, Foot and Mouth Syndrome - Tingley's State College Medical Links.
- Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease (Coxsackievirus) Fact Sheet - From the Epidemiology and Disease Control Program for the State of Maryland.
- Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease (Coxsackievirus) Info - from a pediatric medicine database
Hepatitis A
- Hepatitis A - Columbia University
- Hepatitis A - from the Food and Drug Administration
- Hepatitis Virus Infections - Most commonly hepatitis is caused by one of three viruses: the Hepatitis A virus; the Hepatitis B virus; or the Hepatitis C virus. This site contains a good description of the clinical effects and symptoms of hepatitis infection from KidsHealth.org - a project of The Nemours Center For Children's Health Media.
- Hepatitis A from the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services Regulation and Licensure
- Hepatitis A Vaccine Approved - from PharmInfo.com
- Centers for Disease Control (US)
- Hepatitis A - from the University of Iowa
- Hepatitis A - from Vanderbuilt University Medical Center
Polioviruses
- Virtual Museum of the Iron Lung history of the iron lung in the U.K.
- Immunizations and Chemoprophylaxis for Travel-Related Diseases from the Virtual Hospital at the University of Iowa - Poliomyelitis
- Polio Images - Introduction an exhibit at the University of Michigan on the 40th anniversary of the Salk vaccine
- Lincolnshire Post Polio Network from the U.K.
- Post-Polio Syndrome Central information and support, including an e-mail discussion group
- Anti-Poliovirus Neutralizing Antibody Visualization from the Hogle Lab at Harvard
- About Polio - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US)
- Polio Listserver: To join the Polio List run by Robert Mauro, send an email to listserv@sjuvm.stjohns.edu, leaving the subject line blank and with the body containing following line:"subscribe Polio yourfirstname yourlastname"
- Polio: Overview
- Polio: Death of a Disease recent history from the Philadelphia Inquirer
- Poliomyelitis - a World Health Organization Fact Sheet
Post-Polio Syndrome (PPS) Resources
Rhinoviruses
- A Rhinovirus Page at UW-M, with images Rhinovirus 14 complexed with Neutralizing antibody.
- Cold Virus Infections - The common cold is a contagious viral infection of the upper respiratory tract. It can be caused by a number of common viruses - most typically the rhinoviruses and coronaviruses. a good description of the clinical effects and symptoms of these viral infections is available from KidsHealth.org - a project of The Nemours Center For Children's Health Media.
- Institute of Biochemistry - Rhinovirus group -- This research group (part of the departement of Biochemistry/medical faculty) is mainly interested in the molecular biology of Human Rhinoviruses.
- The Common Cold Centre of Cardiff University offer general information, plus clinical trial data on their website.
- Fast Dry Lozenges -- A Cure for the Common Cold? - the effect of zinc ions (Zn2+) on common colds including clinical research data showing that zinc ions shortened colds by 5 and 7 days.
Poxviridae
- Poxviruses- from our own course and tutorial page, courtesy of A. J. Cann
- Poxviruses - A Tutorial from the University of Leicester (UK)
- Monkeypox - a World Health Organization Fact Sheet
- VIDA: The Virus Database (VIDA) at University College London organises all available sequences from different families of animal viruses: herpesvirus, poxvirus, papillomavirus, coronavirus and arterivirus. The ORF products are clustered into homologous protein families via an automated procedure that uses the sequence similarity search tool BLAST and the MKDOM program. Conserved regions in the families can be retrieved in the form of multiple alignments. Links exist to a number of databases: Swissprot, EMBL and the structural databases CATH and PDB.
- From an introductory virology page (Human Viruses: General Information) - a special page on Poxviruses.
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