07 - Virology Flashcards
All enveloped viruses acquire their envelope from the plasma membrane except for:
Herpes virus - acquired from the nuclear membrane
All viruses are haploid except for:
retrovirus - diploid
Enumerate: RNA viruses with segmented genome (4)
Bunyaviruses
Orthomyxovirus (Influenza)
Arenaviruses
Reoviruses
BOAR
Enumerate: Negative-stranded RNA viruses: (6)
Arenaviruses Bunyaviruses Paramyxoviruses Orthomyxoviruses Filoviruses Rhabdoviruses
Always Bring Polymerase Or Fail Replication
Gold standard in diagnosis of viral infection:
Presence of viral DNA or RNA
First vaccine known to prevent a human cancer:
HBV
Most common sites of viral infection and disease:
oropharynx and respiratory tract
All DNA viruses have double-stranded DNA except:
Parvovirus
All DNA viruses have linear DNA except:
Hepadna, Papilloma, and Polyoma
All DNA viruses are icosahedral except:
Poxvirus
All DNA viruses replicate inside the nucleus except:
Poxvirus (cannot enter the nucleus because of its size)
- The only virus with a fiber:
- What is this fiber called?
- Adenovirus
- Penton fiber
- Most common viral STD:
- What strains cause this?
- Condyloma accuminata
- HPV 6 and 11
The only hepatitis virus whose genome is DNA:
Hepatitis B virus (Hepadna)
Enumerate: diseases with blueberry muffin lesions: (3)
- Congenital Rubella
- Congenital CMV
- Disseminated Neuroblastoma
- Identify: syndrome of swelling of the liver and brain, leading to encephalitis
- what viral infection can cause this syndrome?
- Reye syndrome
- VZV