Flora and Fauna

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• Health: Conditions and Diseases: Infectious Diseases: Viral  (525)
• Health: Public Health and Safety: Disease Control and Prevention: Immunizations  (36)
• Science: Biology: Microbiology: Virology  (41)

Are Viruses Alive? - Educational site that discusses what defines life and whether viruses fit into this definition..

Bacteriophage - Information from Wikipedia on the viruses that infect bacteria, their classification, history, replication and uses..

The Big Picture Book of Viruses - Specific information on viral families, genomes, taxonomy, and structure..

Complete Tospovirus Resource and Database - Tospoviruses, the only plant infecting members of Bunyaviridae, are a worldwide problem. This site features a searchable database of host plants..

Distemper and Influenza at Mill Hill - Article by Rick Carver and John Skehel from the archives of the Mill Hill Essays 2000, about the group of viruses called paramyxoviruses..

HIV - Research project by Kayleen Kinsley on the human immunodeficiency virus, including its classification, nutrition, reproduction, habitat, history and information on the disease it causes..

Index of Viruses - Database of virus names, acronyms, hosts, and nucleic acids..

The Influenze Sequence Database - Database of virus information including nucleotide sequences..

International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses - Taxonomy of viruses, including electron microscopy pictures, and family descriptions..

Origins of Viruses - Article examining the evidence for how the first viruses may have appeared and how viruses, like other parasites, co-evolved with their hosts..

Plant Viruses Online - Provides an introduction to plant viruses and includes descriptions and lists of a large number of viruses taken from the VIDE Database..

Principles of Virus Architecture - Information regarding virus structures, images, and the use of stain to identify them..

Taxonomy browser (Viruses) - The NCBI Taxonomy database allows browsing of the taxonomy tree, which contains a classification of organisms..

Virus - Comprehensive information from Wikipedia on these sub-microscopic infectious agents that are unable to grow or reproduce outside a host cell..

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