BIO307: Microbiology

8.5: dsRNA Viruses

• 8.5.1: Arboviruses

  • University of South Carolina School of Medicine: Margaret Hunt's "Arboviruses"

    Read this article on Arboviruses, which include the mosquito-spread West Nile Virus and Reoviridae. Reoviridae causes the gastroenteritis illness known as "Rotavirus."
    

• 8.5.2: Birnaviruses

  • Journal of General Virology: Joan Pous, Christophe Chevalier, et al.'s "Structure of Birnavirus-like Particles Determined by Combined Electron Cryomicroscopy and X-ray Crystallography"

    Read the first three paragraphs of the introduction to gain an understanding of birnaviruses.