Literature Guide: Viruses and Virology
WCIU Journal: Health and Disease Topic
March 3, 2020
Timothy Skinner, MLS, is the Librarian for William Carey International University and a member of Frontier Ventures.
Compiled by Timothy Skinner, MLS
Library of Congress Classification
QR 355 – QR 502 Viruses
RA 644 .V55 (Public health)
RC 111.5 – RC 114.6 (Internal medicine)
RJ 401 Virus diseases in children
SB 736 Virus diseases of plants
Dewey Decimal Classification
616 Diseases
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Adenovirus diseases
Agricultural virology
AIDS (Disease) in children
Antiviral agents
Arbovirus infections
Arboviruses
Arenavirus infections
Bacteriophages
Banana bunchy top disease
Barley yellow dwarf disease
Borna disease
Cold (Disease) in children
Coronavirus infections
Diagnostic virology
DNA viruses
Ebola virus disease
Fishes—Virus diseases
Fungal viruses
Hantavirus infections
Hepatitis, Viral, in children
Hepatitis viruses
Influenza
Insects—Virus diseases
Latent virus diseases
Marburg virus disease
Measles
Medical virology
Meningopneumonitis
Molecular virology
Multiple sclerosis
Myalgic encephalomyelitis
Neurovirology
Oncogenic viruses
Papillomavirus diseases
Parvovirus infections
Picornavirus infections
Plant viruses
Plaque assay technique
Potato leafroll disease
Potyvirus diseases
Poultry—Virus diseases
Poxvirus diseases
Rabies
Rabies in children
Recombinant viruses
Reye’s syndrome
RNA viruses
Rubella in pregnancy
Simian viruses
Slow virus diseases
Spike disease of sandalwood
Teschen disease
Togavirus infections
Veterinary virology
Viral antigens
Viral diarrhea
Viral gastroenteritis
Viral pneumonia
Viral pollution of water
Viroid diseases of plants
Virology
Virus diseases in pregnancy
Viruses
Virus-induced enzymes
Virus inhibitors
Virus-vector relationships
Periodicals
Journal of Virology
Virology Journal
Periodical Articles
Krieg, Arthur M. 1997. “Human Endogenous Retroviruses.” Science & Medicine 4, no. 3 (March/April): 34-43.
Lange, W. R., and J. D. Frame. 1990. “High Incidence of Viral Hepatitis Among American Missionaries in Africa.” American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 43: 527-33.
Books
(An asterisk indicates an e-book held by Latourette Library.)
Reference Books
*A Dictionary of Virology (2001)
*Encyclopedia of Virology Research (2012)
Virology: An Information Profile 1983)
Reference Books with Relevant Articles
American National Biography (1999)
Biographical Dictionary of Medicine (1990)
General and Miscellaneous
*Bosch, Albert. 2007. Human Viruses in Water.
Dulbecco, Renato. 1962. Basic Mechanisms in Animal Virus Biology. Cold Spring Harbor, NY: The Biological Laboratory.
*Holmes, Edward C. 2009. The Evolution and Emergence of RNA Viruses. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
*Mahy, B. W. J., and Hillar O. Kangro. 1996. Virology Methods Manual. San Diego: Academic Press.
*Oldstone, Michael B. A. 2010. Viruses, Plagues, and History: Past, Present, and Future. New York: Oxford University Press.
*Ou, James, and T. S. Benedict Yen. 2010. Human Oncogenic Viruses. Singapore: World Scientific.
Peters. C. J., and Mark Olshaker. 1997. Virus Hunter. New York: Anchor Books.
Roossinck, Marilyn J. 2016. Virus: An Illustrated Guide to 101 Incredible Microbes. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Stanley, Wendell Meredith, and Frank MacFarland Burnet. 2015. The Viruses: Biochemical, Biological, and Biophysical Properties. Palala Press.
*Stockley, Peter G., and Reidun Twarock. 2010. Emerging Topics in Physical Virology. London: Imperial College Press.
Theiler, Max. 1973. The Arthropod-Borne Viruses of Vertebrates: An Account of the Rockefeller Foundation Virus Program, 1951-1970. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
*Zuckerman, Arie J., et al. 2004. Principles and Practice of Clinical Virology. West Sussex, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.
Biography and History
Burnet, Frank MacFarlane. 1968. Changing Patterns: An Atypical Autobiography. William Heinemann, Ltd.
Calisher, Charles H., and M. C. Horzinek, eds. 1999. 100 Years of Virology: The Birth and Growth of a Discipline. New York: Springer.
Collins, Robert D. 2002. Ernest William Goodpasture: Scientist, Scholar, Gentleman. Franklin, TN: Hillsboro Press.
Mahy, Brian W. J., and Dmiti K. Lwv, eds. 1993. Concepts in Virology: From Ivanovsky to the Present. London: Routledge.
Books with Relevant Chapters
Dunlop, Robert H., and David J. Williams. 1996. Veterinary Medicine: An Illustrated History. St. Louis: Mosby. Chapter 22: “The Heyday of Pathogenic Bacteriology and the Discovery of Viruses.”
Jong, Elaine C., and Russell McMullen. 1995. The Travel & Tropical Medicine Manual. 2nd ed. Philadelphia: Saunders. Chapter 17: “Viral Hepatitis in Travelers and Immigrants.”