Viruses

Hemorrhagic fever virus with renal syndrome

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

Oncogenic viruses (oncoviruses)

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

The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome was isolated as a special disease in 1981 in the United States, when in a number of young people severe diseases were caused by microorganisms that are non-pathogenic or slightly pathogenic for healthy people.

Retroviruses

Viruses belonging to this family have a number of the following features, peculiar only to them.

Rabdoviruses - pathogens of rabies and vesicular stomatitis

Rabies - an acute infectious disease caused by a rhabdovirus - occurs when a person bites a sick animal or when it comes to the damaged skin or mucous membrane of the saliva of a sick animal.

Filoviruses: Ebola and Marburg virus

These causative agents of diseases, proceeding according to the type of hemorrhagic fevers, have been 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 detected in 1977 by M. Rizetto and co-workers in hepatocyte nuclei in patients with chronic hepatitis using immunofluorescence.

Epstein-Barr virus

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

Kaposi's sarcoma virus

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

Human cytomegalovirus

Cytomegaly with intracellular inclusions is a generalized infection of newborns caused by intrauterine infection with cytomegalovirus (CMV) or infection immediately after birth.

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