Hepatitis C virus is single stranded belonging to the flaviviridae family to which flaviviruses such as yellow fever and dengue belong. Hepatitis C virus has one serotype with at least 6 different genotype which are…
Poliovirus are from the family Picornavirus and the Enterovirus genus. Poliomyelitis is caused by one of the three types of polioviruses. It is an acute infectious diseases with or without signs of CNS involvement. It…
The genus of Enterovirus belongs to the family of Picornavirus. Enteron means small intestine and is the main replication site for most enteroviruses while PicoRNAvirus are RNA viruses. Therefore, enteroviruses are RNA viruses and Picornaviruses…
The Papovaviridae family is made up of papovaviruses, which are viruses with small, enveloped, icosahedral capsids and double-stranded, circular DNA. The term papova comes from the first two letters of the virus names (pa, papillomaviruses;…
Poxviruses are the largest and most complex viruses found in humans, birds, animals, and insects. These viruses, which are members of the Poxviridae family, comprise a large group of DNA viruses that are morphologically similar…
Although human coronaviruses (CoV) have been recognized as human pathogens since the 1960s, their virus family gained notoriety in 2002 and 2003 with the first outbreak of the SARS coronavirus epidemic and the recent emergence…
Viral diseases are diagnosed by demonstrating virus in appropriate clinical specimens via culture. The isolation of a virus is always regarded as the gold standard for determining the viral etiology of a disease. The collection…
