virology

thumb|Gamma phage, an example of virus particles (visualised by electron microscopy)

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Virology is the scientific study of viruses—tiny infectious agents that can infect living cells and cause disease in humans, animals, and plants. It matters because understanding how viruses work helps scientists develop treatments, vaccines, and prevention strategies to protect public health.

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Virology-The next fifty years.Cell · 2024Holmes EC, Krammer F, Goodrum FDDOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2024.07.025
Editorial: Recent advances in plant virology.Virology · 2024Li F, Sun Z, Zhou XDOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2024.110099
Human Organs-on-Chips for Virology.ReviewTrends in microbiology · 2020Tang H, Abouleila Y, Si L et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2020.06.005
Basic Virology.ReviewAdvances in experimental medicine and biology · 2026Veenstra TDDOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-22340-1_2
Amplification chemistries in clinical virology.ReviewJournal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology · 2019Dunbar S, Das SDOI: 10.1016/j.jcv.2019.03.015
[Contribution of yeast to synthetic virology].ReviewVirologie (Montrouge, France) · 2025Rey C, Agaoua A, Erbs PDOI: 10.1684/vir.2025.1114
Is virology dead?mBio · 2014Dimaio DDOI: 10.1128/mBio.01003-14
A veterinary virapalooza: a summary of the 2024 American Society for Virology (ASV) Veterinary/Zoonotic Virology Satellite Symposium and online H5N1 panel discussion.ReviewJournal of virology · 2025Broadbent ADOI: 10.1128/jvi.00499-25

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Contents

History
Detecting viruses
Electron microscopy
Growth in cultures
Serology
Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and other nucleic acid detection methods
Diagnostic tests
Quantitation and viral loads
Infectivity assays
Viral load assays
Molecular biology
Purifying viruses and their components
Centrifugation
Electrophoresis
Sequencing of viral genomes
Phylogenetic analysis
Cloning
Phage virology
Genetics
Reassortment
Recombination
Reverse genetics
Virus classification
ICTV classification
Baltimore classification
References
Bibliography
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thumb|Gamma phage, an example of virus particles (visualised by electron microscopy)

Virology is the scientific study of biological viruses. It is a subfield of microbiology that focuses on their detection, structure, classification and evolution, their methods of infection and exploitation of host cells for reproduction, their interaction with host organism physiology and immunity, the diseases they cause, the techniques to isolate and culture them, and their use in research and therapy.