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This book provides a key for students to open the door to medical molecular virology, and therefore it only introduces the important themes of medical molecular virology. Questions are included between sections in all chapters, but with no "standard" answers. These questions are raised to prompt active and innovative discussion.

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Chapter 1 Is a virus just a packet of genes?
Chapter 2 Viruses and host cells -- Are they interdependent?
Chapter 3 Persistent virus infection -- a favorabIe balance or not?
Chapter 4 Why are there so many types of intederons?
Chapter 5 Viral oncogenesis -- an unexpected outcome of virus infection
Chapter 6 Antiviral drug deveIopment -- hopes and disappointments
Chapter 7 Vaccines -- an outstanding success
Chapter 8 Prions -- a challenge to dogma
Chapter 9 Why is virus nomenclature important?
Chapter 10 RNA viruses
Chapter 11 RNA-DNA intermediate viruses
Chapter 12 DNA viruses

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