BIO307: Microbiology

8.7: -ssRNA Viruses

• 8.7.1: Orthomyxoviruses

  • University of South Carolina School of Medicine: Margaret Hunt's "Influenza Virus (Orthomyxoviruses)"

    Read this chapter to learn about different types of flu viruses. Orthomyxoviruses are more commonly known as the flu virus. There are many kinds of flu viruses, including H1N1. 
    

• 8.7.2: Paramyxoviruses

  • University of South Carolina School of Medicine: Margaret Hunt's "Measles (Rubeola) and Mumps"

    Read this chapter, which discusses Paramyxoviruses.
    

• 8.7.3: Rhabdoviruses

  • University of South Carolina School of Medicine: Richard Hunt's "Rabies"

    Read this chapter to further understand the dangers of rabies to animals and humans. One type of virus in the rhabdovirus family is called lyssavirus, which causes rabies. Rabies is infallibly lethal; if left untreated, it has a death rate of 100%.
    

• 8.7.4: Filoviruses

  • Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics: "Filoviridae"

    Read this article to learn about Filoviruses and hemorrhagic fever. Filoviruses cause viral hemorrhagic fevers, a particularly destructive set of conditions that often leads to death. One such virus is the Ebolavirus, which causes Ebola.