Infectious Disease

Featured Infectious Disease Resources

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  Lecture

  Lecture Series

  Watch two leading virus researchers explain how they use both simple and sophisticated technologies to detect and fight infectious agents.
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  Click & Learn

  The West Nile Virus Story

  West Nile virus infects mosquitoes, birds, and people—with very different consequences.
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  Click & Learn

  Stopping Mosquito-Borne Disease

  Learn about the nature of vector-borne diseases, and the life cycle of the dengue vector mosquito.
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  Click & Learn

  Cells of the Immune System

  An overview of the immune system, concentrating on the roles played by B and T lymphocytes, and the antigen-presentation system.
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  Animation

  Antigen presentation and CTL

  (02 min 34 sec) How a cell infected by a virus signals cytotoxic T lymphocytes to kill the cell before the virus replicates and spreads.
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  Animation

  HIV life cycle

  (04 min 52 sec) How HIV infects a cell and replicates itself using reverse transcriptase and the host's cellular machinery.
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  Animation

  Malaria: Human Host

  (04 min 18 sec) When a malaria-carrying mosquito bites a human host, the malaria parasite enters the bloodstream, multiplies in the liver cells, and is then released back into the bloodstream, where it infects and destroys red blood cells.
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  Animation

  Malaria: Mosquito Host

  (03 min 59 sec) A mosquito becomes infected with malaria when it sucks the blood from an infected human. Once inside the mosquito, the parasites reproduce in the gut and accumulate in the salivary glands, ready to infect another human host with the next bite.
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  Animation

  Dengue Virus Life Cycle

  (04 min 12 sec) Dengue virus has sophisticated mechanisms for entering a cell, for replicating its RNA genome, and for translating proteins.
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  Virtual Lab

  Immunology Virtual Lab

  This virtual lab teaches the procedures of performing an ELISA test to determine whether a particular antibody is present in a patient's blood sample.
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  Activity

  West Nile Vectors-Hosts Game

  Are you a vector or a host? Play the West Nile virus game to learn how the virus spreads and how the outcome changes depending on who gets infected.
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  Poster

  Viral Diversity Poster

  The poster from the 2010 Holiday Lectures, Viral Outbreak: The Science of Emerging Disease, illustrating the size, geometry, and different classifications of viruses.