Websites on Research Centers: The Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases Latest laboratory technologies and diagnostics focused on viruses and diseases they cause. Maintained by the University of Iowa. The Center for the Biology of Chronic Disease Research center regarding epstein-barr virus and the disease it causes. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Research center for influenza vaccination, control, treatment, and lab diagnosis. Craigie Laboratory Research group studying the mechanisms that HIV and retroviruses use to integrate DNA into human cells. Includes recent publications and current research projects. Department of plant virology - IPMB - Czech republic molecular-based detection methods (PCR, RT-PCR, hybridization, microhybridization) of plant viruses and phytoplasmas. Department of Virology: Research Projects Viral research information from the Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences. Enteric Virus Group Enteric Virus Group from the Department of Microbiology of the University of Barcelona, Spain. The Garry Laboratory Information about research into aspects of retroviral pathogenesis at Professor Robert F. Garry’s lab at Tulane University School of Medicine. Includes links to publications and external sites. Gilead: Antiviral Research on anti-viral therapeutics focusing on HIV/AIDS and hepatitis, using nucleotide analogues, protease inhibitors, nucleoside analogues and neuroaminidase inhibitors. Institute for Molecular Virology Includes computer enhanced images of viruses, news concerning virus infections, a multimedia library, and assistance in setting up a distance learning course. Macfarlane Burnet Centre for Medical Research To conduct research into viral infections of public health importance, especially HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis A, D, C and E. To understand the replication and spread of viruses To develop improved methods for the diagnosis, treatment and control of the major viral infections of the Western Pacific region. Medical Microbiology University of Cape Town This site is recognised for Linda Stannard's primer on virus architecture and her electron micrographs of various virus particles. Included, are copies of undergraduate dical lectures on viral diseases. There is also access to the Groote Schuur Hospital antibiotic prescribing recommendations and to lecture notes on mycobacterial diseases. Mullins Molecular Retrovirology Lab Viral research center focusing on retrovirus genes and gene products in HIV and the related viruses FIV and SIV. Includes methodology protocols and publication material. Peixuan Guo Research on mechanism of viral assembly, DNA packaging, molecular vaccines, antiviral therapy, gene delivery, and chimerical virus displaying antigens or antibodies. Viral Immunology Projects at the Edward Jenner Institute for Vaccine Research includes the design of effective vaccines to combat persistent infections such as human immunodeficiency virus type 1 and hepatitis C virus.
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