Virus Infection and Hosts

This text discusses steps of virus infections (entry, replication & assembly, egress), different hosts & their viruses, bacteriophages, animal viruses, and plant viruses. Advanced Placement® and AP® are trademarks registered and/or owned by the College Board, which is not affiliated with, and does not endorse, this textbook.

Topics

  • acellular
  • acute disease
  • asymptomatic disease
  • attenuation
  • AZT
  • back mutation
  • bacteriophage
  • budding
  • capsid capsomere
  • cell necrosis
  • chronic infection
  • cytopathic
  • envelope fusion
  • gall
  • gene therapy
  • group I virus
  • group II virus
  • group III virus
  • group IV virus
  • group V virus
  • group VI virus
  • group VII virus
  • hyperplasia
  • hypoplasia
  • intermittent symptom
  • latency
  • lysis
  • lysogenic cycle
  • lytic cycle
  • matrix protein
  • negative polarity
  • oncogenic virus
  • oncolytic virus
  • pathogen permissive
  • phage therapy
  • positive polarity
  • prion
  • productive prophage
  • PrPc
  • PrPsc
  • replicative
  • intermediate retrovirus
  • reverse transcriptase
  • vaccine
  • vertical transmission
  • viral receptor
  • virion
  • viroid
  • virus core
  • receptor
  • acute
  • asymptomatic infection
  • egress
  • galls
  • host
  • intermittent
  • permissive
  • productive
  • prophage
  • viral assembly
  • viral replication
  • virus attachment
  • virus entry
  • virus infection
  • chronic
  • fusion