Viruses

Hemorrhagic fever virus with renal syndrome

Hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) is an acute severe infectious disease characterized by systemic damage to small vessels, hemorrhagic diathesis, hemodynamic disorders...

Oncogenic viruses (oncoviruses)

To explain the nature of cancer, two dominant theories have been proposed - mutational and viral. According to the first, cancer is the result of successive mutations of a number of genes in one cell, i.e. it is based on changes that occur at the gene level.

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)

Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome was identified as a specific disease in 1981 in the United States, when a number of young people developed severe illnesses caused by microorganisms that were non-pathogenic or weakly pathogenic for healthy people.

Retroviruses

Viruses belonging to this family have a number of the following features that are unique to them.

Rhabdoviruses are causative agents of rabies and vesicular stomatitis

Rabies is an acute infectious disease caused by a rhabdovirus that occurs when a person is bitten by a sick animal or when the saliva of a sick animal comes into contact with damaged skin or mucous membranes.

Filoviruses: Ebola virus and Marburg virus

These pathogens of diseases that occur as hemorrhagic fevers were described relatively recently and have been little studied. They are classified in a separate family, Filoviridae, with a single genus, Filovirus.

Hepatitis D virus

The causative agent (HDV) was discovered in 1977 by M. Risetto and his colleagues in the nuclei of hepatocytes in patients with chronic hepatitis using the immunofluorescence method.

Epstein-Barr virus

The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) causes infectious mononucleosis, which affects people of all ages, as well as a tumor most often found in the upper jaw in children and adolescents in Central Africa - Burkitt's lymphoma, and in adult men in China - nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

Kaposi's sarcoma virus

Kaposi's sarcoma is a multifocal disease with predominant lesions of the skin, as well as internal organs and lymph nodes.

Human cytomegalovirus

Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is a generalized infection of neonates caused by intrauterine infection with cytomegalovirus (CMV) or infection immediately after birth.

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