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Virology is the scientific study of biological viruses. It is a subfield of microbiology that focuses on their detection, structure, classification and evolution, their methods of infection and exploitation of host cells for reproduction, their interaction with host organism physiology and immunity, the diseases they cause, the techniques to ...
Virology, branch of microbiology that deals with the study of viruses. Although diseases caused by viruses have been known since the 1700s and cures for many were (somewhat later) effected, the causative agent was not closely examined until 1892, when a Russian bacteriologist, D. Ivanovski,
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The history of virology – the scientific study of viruses and the infections they cause – began in the closing years of the 19th century. Although Edward Jenner and Louis Pasteur developed the first vaccines to protect against viral infections, they did not know that viruses existed.
Nov 11, 2016 · The history of virology can be divided into a number of eras: these span (1) the discovery of viruses as entities distinct from other disease-causing pathogens, (2) the association of many major human diseases with causative viruses, (3) the development of methods for virus isolation and characterization, (4) the defining of the chemical ...
- Christopher J. Burrell, Colin R. Howard, Frederick A. Murphy
- 10.1016/B978-0-12-375156-0.00001-1
- 2016
- 2017
What Is a Virus? Although historians identified pandemic diseases, which spread around the world, the agents responsible for these were not recognized until the early and mid-twentieth century. Some of these pandemics, such as the Black Death, were caused by bacteria, and others by viruses such as smallpox.
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