Nursing: importance of virus

1. Virus importance in health and ecology
2. Mechanisms of virus replication
3. Pathophysiology of virus induced disease
4. Select families of viruses with human importance
5. Theories on the origin and evolution of virus
6. Oncoviruses
7. Vaccines developed to prevent viral infection and spread
8. Drug development and anti-viral drugs used to fight viral infection
9. Prions and their associated clinical conditions
10. HIV/AIDS

Link to websites for background information:

http://www.aafp.org/afp/1999/1001/p1455.html

http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/961063-overview#showall

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC118081/

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2219874/

http://www.patient.co.uk/doctor/Parvovirus-Infection-(Including-Erythema-Infectiosum).htm