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32 Cards in this Set
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Walter Reed studied _____________, which was the first human virus linked to disease. |
yellow fever |
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Alice M. Woodruff and Ernest W. Goodpasture |
used chicken eggs in culture |
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viral genome |
contains DNA or RNA, but not both |
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virion |
a completely assembled, infectious virus outside its host cell. |
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shapes of viruses |
helical (corkscrew), isocahedral (polyhedron), complex (both helical and isocahedral shapes) |
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host range |
what organisms the virus can infect |
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tissue tropism |
limit on what types of cells or tissues a virus can infect |
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cancer |
uncontrolled growth and spread of cells |
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Viruses are responsible for about ____ of tumors. |
20% |
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viroids |
infectious RNA particles that could have originated as introns |
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prions |
proteinaceous infectious particle; discovered by Stanley Prusiner to be the cause of TSEs |
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TSEs |
Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies; neurologic degenerative diseases that can be transmitted within or between species. Ex: mad cow disease |
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Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease |
human form of TSE |
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Adenoviridae family |
common cold & viral meningitis |
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Papillomaviridae family |
warts & cervical cancer |
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Poxviridae family |
smallpox |
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Herpesviridae family |
cold sores, chickenpox, shingles, mononucleosis |
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Hepadnaviridae family |
Hepatitis B, liver cancer |
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Parvoviridae family |
Fifth disease & gastroenteritis |
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Picornaviridae family |
Common cold, Polio, Hepatitis A |
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Caliciviridae family |
Gastroenteritis |
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Togaviridae family |
Rubella & encephalitis |
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Flaviviridae family |
Yellow fever, Dengue fever, West Nile fever, Hepatitis C |
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Coronaviridae family |
SARS |
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Retroviridae |
AIDS |
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Filoviridae family |
Ebola and Marburg hemorrhagic fevers |
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Bunyaviridae family |
hantaviris pulmonary syndrome |
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Rhabdoviridae family |
Rabies |
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Orthomyxoviridae family |
influenza |
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Paramyxoviridae family |
mumps & measles |
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Arenaviridae |
Lassa fever |
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bacteriophages |
Viruses that destroy the bacterial cells they infect |
