Virology Flashcards
1
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Louis Pasteur
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Develops vaccine against rabies
Unable to find causative agent (“pathogen too small”)
2
Q
Charles Chamberland
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Chamberland filter (used to filter water)
3
Q
Martinus Beijerinck
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- Agent multiplied only in cells
- Contagium vivum fluidum
- Virus (Latin: slimy liquid or poison)
4
Q
Dimitri Ivanoski
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First to come up with the idea that infectious agents were filterable
5
Q
Martinus Beijerinck
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- assumed that these unknown agents multiplied only in cells
- Contagium vivum fluidum
- decided to call them Viruses (Latin: slimy liquid or poison)
6
Q
Wendell Stanley
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first to visualize a Viral structure under Elecrtron Microscope
7
Q
Loeffler & Frosch
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First proof of viral infections in animals
8
Q
Viruses are defined as…
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- Small and filterable (filter pore size 0.2 μm)
- Found in almost every ecosystem on earth
- Obligate intracellular parasites
- Inert outside host cells
- Hijack and utilize host cellular metabolism to make energy or proteins
- Non-living entities
- Surviving hours to days outside host cells
- Showing reduced infectivity with increased time outside host cells
- Not having standard cellular organelles (e.g. mitochondria, chloroplasts ribosomes, Golgi,…)
