Contributors
Chapter 1 History of Virology
Diwakar D. Kulkarni
Chapter 2 Viruses and Their Significance
Vijay Singh Bohara and Sachin Kumar
Chapter 3 Methods Used in Virology
Nilave Ranjan Bora and Sachin Kumar
Chapter 4 Transmission of Viruses
Shaurya Dumka and Sachin Kumar
Chapter 5 Virus Classification
Shinjini Bhattacharya, Sukanya Sonowal and Sachin Kumar
Chapter 6 Virus Structure
Shinjini Bhattacharya, Sukanya Sonowal and Sachin Kumar
Chapter 7 Virus Replication
Shinjini Bhattacharya, Sukanya Sonowal and Sachin Kumar
Chapter 8 Viral Pathogenesis
Aditya Singh Chauhan, Archita Sen and Sachin Kumar
Chapter 9 Double-Stranded DNA Viruses
Kiran Singh, Nilave Ranjan Bora and Sachin Kumar
Chapter 10 Single-Stranded DNA Viruses
Anusha Sairavi and Yoya Vashi
Chapter 11 Double-Stranded RNA Viruses
Nilave Ranjan Bora, Kiran Singh and Sachin Kumar
Chapter 12 Positive-Sense RNA Viruses
Kiran Singh and Sachin Kumar
Chapter 13 Minus-Strand RNA Viruses
Kamal Shokeen and Sachin Kumar
Chapter 14 Retroviruses
Satyendu Nandy and Sachin Kumar
Chapter 15 DNA Viruses Containing Reverse Transcriptase
Sonali Sengupta and Baibaswata Nayak
Chapter 16 Bacteriophages
Vishnu Kumar
Chapter 17 Plant Viruses
Rashmi Singh, Sachin Kumar and Latha Rangan
Chapter 18 Oncolytic Viruses
Deepa Mehta and Sachin Kumar
Chapter 19 Emerging and Transboundary Viral Diseases
Nagendra Nath Barman and Lukumoni Buragohain
Chapter 20 Immunity to Virus Infection
Madhuri Subbiah and Haajira Beevi Habeeb Rahuman
Chapter 21 Viral Vaccines
Vijay Singh Bohara and Sachin Kumar
Index
Biography
Sachin Kumar is a Professor in the Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India. He completed his PhD at the University of Maryland, USA, in the field of molecular virology. He holds a master’s in veterinary science from the Indian Veterinary Research Institute. He has over 167 publications and five patents to his credit.
