final Flashcards
what is the perspective of viruses?
- there is no agreement on where they came from
- they are the most abundant microbes
what are the characteristics of a viruses life?
- cells are constructed of the same kind of atoms and molecules according to the same laws of energy
- all life forms contain molecules of life
- DNA encodes information
- life evolves
what are the properties of viruses?
- dont independently fulfill the characteristics of life
- DNA or RNA
- lack enzyme-lack machinery
what characteristics determine the type of virus?
- size
- shape
- genome
- other structures
size of viruses
-ultramicroscopic
what two types of structures can viruses have?
enveloped and naked
what is the shape of viruses?
they all have capsids
what are the two structural capsid types?
helical and icosahedral
helical cpasids
continous helical shape
icosahedral capsids
20 sides and 12 even spaces
atypical virus
deviation of the structure, most bacteriophages
enveloped structures
have spikes that attach to capuls
viral genome
- either DNA or RNA, never both
- carries information to change cell
DNA
double or single stranded
RNA
double or single stranded, and segmented
positive snese RNA
the genome is ready for translation
negative sense RNA
must be covered to be ready
polymerases
synthesize DNA or RNA
replicases
copy RNA
reverse transcriptase
synthesis of DNA from RNA
viron
complete infectious particle
what are the virus classifications?
- nucleic acid type
- presence or absence of envelope
- capsid symmetry
- dimensions of virion and capsid
family
basic biology
disease name
important most common way of identifying a virus
adsorption
attachment
penetration
entry into host
synthesis
interfering the host to copy and make proteins
assembly/ maturation
changes the host cell to be like the virus
release
releases the cells into the body
viral specificity
how well it can attach
outcomes of viral infection
either stoping the symptoms to make worse or leaving the body
cytopathic effects
cell damage
viral infections in animals
harder to detect
medical importance
- common cause of infections
- death
parvoviruses
- rash
- 5ths disease
Papilloma
- warts
- HPV
- from direct contact
what are warts described by?
location
genital warts
- most common STD
- HPV 16 and 18
- can lead to cancer
- vaccine
Adenovirus
- causes colds
- conjunctivitis in eye
Poxviruses
- largest and complex
- largest genome
- scarring
smallpox
- first and only disease to be gone by vaccination
- from skin contacts or inhillation
- young in africa
vaccination of smallpox
- routine
- live vaccine
molluscipoxivirus
- wax warts
- pacific islands in kids
- direct contact
- commonly an STD
- treatment: freezing
Herpes
-always shows latency
not dangerous unless immunocompormised
-large envelope
HSV1
cold sores in mouth
HSV2
genital blisters, teens