Important Timetable of Virology

Question 1

Identification of tobacco mosaic virus as filterable agent

Answer 1

Ivanofsky and Beijerinck - 1892

Question 2

Foot and Mouth Disease caused by filterable agent

Answer 2

Loeffler and Frosch 1898

Question 3

Myxoma virus

Answer 3

Sanarelli 1898

Question 4

Fowl plague virus (avian influenza virus)

Answer 4

Centanni, Lode, and Gruber 1901

Question 5

Rinderpest virus

Answer 5

Nicolle and Adil-Bey 1902

Question 6

Pseudorabies 

Answer 6

Aujeszky 1902

Question 7

Rabies Virus

Answer 7

Remlinger and Riffat-Bay 1903

Question 8

Canine distemper virus

Answer 8

Carré 1905

Question 9

Rous sarcoma virus; first tumor virus

Answer 9

Rous 1911

Question 10

Development of the plague assay

Answer 10

D’Herelle 1917

Question 11

Newcastle Disease

Answer 11

Doyle 1927

Question 12

First electron microscopy; TMV

Answer 12

Kausche, Ankuch, and Ruska 1938-1939

Question 13

Culture of isolated mammalian cells

Answer 13

Sanford, Earle, and Likely 1948

Question 14

Discovery of interferon

Answer 14

Isaacs and Lindemann 1957

Question 15

First isolation of avian influenze virus from wild bird reservoir

Answer 15

Becker 1961

Question 16

WHO declares smallpox eradicated

Answer 16

World Health Organization 1979

Question 17

Severe acute respiratory syndrome outbreak

Answer 17

2002

Question 18

Development of molecular tools and computer software for “next generation sequencing” and metagenomic analyses

Answer 18

2008

Question 19

Declaration of the global eradication of rinderpest

Answer 19

World Organisation of Animal Health 2011

Question 20

Recognition of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-Cov)

Answer 20

2012

Question 21

Reemergence of Ebola in West Africa

Answer 21

2014