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- What is virology?
- Succinctly describe the biology of viruses.
- What is a virion?
- Briefly explain the terms bacteriophage and plaque.
- What are interferons?
- Describe in details the several ways in which viruses differ from other living cells.
- Describe in details the function of reverse transcriptase in the replication of RNA viruses.
- Enumerate the economic importance of virus.
- Describe the medical significance of prions.
- What are viroids?
- X-ray the chemical and physical properties of viruses.
- How can a viral cell be inactivated?
- Describe in details the several components of a virus.
- How are viruses classified?
- Describe in details the different stages involved in the pathogenesis and/or replication of a virus.
- What is apoptosis?
- What is Guillain-Barré syndrome?
- Describe how the host cell defends itself from a viral infection.
- What is Erythema infectiosum?
- Mention the causative agent of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy and describe briefly the clinical condition of the disease.
- Using examples differentiate RNA viruses from DNA viruses.
- What is a provirus?
- What species of mosquito transmits Zika virus and Chikungunya virus to man?
- Explain in details the acronym HAART.
- Describe HIV based on its pathogenesis, laboratory diagnosis and treatment.
- What are arboviruses?
- What are haemorrhagic fever viruses?
- What is an aerogenical transmission?
- Differentiate between antigenic drift and antigenic shift.
- Briefly explain the medical significance of viruses in the Caliciviridae family and Picornaviridae
- Explain the medical significance of rotaviruses.
- Describe Lassa fever bases on its causative agent, pathogenesis, animal host, treatment and prevention
- What re the four main causative agents of ebola?
- What is the causative agent of SARS?
- Describe in details viral cultivation.
- What is cytopathic effect?
- Explain hemadsorption as it relates to viral cultivation.
- What is plaque-forming unit (PFU)?
- What is egg candling?
- Describe in details viral cultivation using embryonated egg.
- Describe in details the factors that encourage the pathogenesis/virulence of a pathogenic virus.
- Describe in details the transmission, pathogenesis, laboratory diagnosis, treatment and prevention of EVD.
- What is contact tracing?
- Why is Zika virus infection called a pandemic and notifiable disease?
- Define the term vaccine.
- Describe in details the different types of vaccines.
- Why is viral haemorrhagic fever referred to as a multisystem syndrome?
- Describe in details Zika virus bases on its causative agent, symptoms, pathogenesis, diagnosis, treatment and prevention.
- Mention two other viral diseases caused by Filoviruses and which are transmitted to man by arthropods.
- What is the function of replicase enzyme in the replication of RNA viruses?
