PEBO 314 Virology I

This course deals with basic virology concepts, structure and composition of plant and animal viruses and viroids. Emphasis will be on their classification, nomenclature, cultivation, isolation and assay of viruses and bacteriophage. Students will be taken through the following viral replication, viral genetics and evolution; pathogenesis, virus-induced changes in cells, infection and spread of viruses in plants and body of animals and humans. Subsequently students will be taken through laboratory diagnosis of viral diseases. They will be introduced to the principles of epidemiology of viral infections; surveillance, control and eradication of viral diseases, selected viruses of plants, animals and man.