Part 1: General principles
1. Virology: how it all began and where it will go
2. General properties of viruses
3. Viral replication and genetics
4. How viruses cause disease
5. Resistance of the human body to virus infections
6. Viruses and the community: the science and practice of epidemiology
Part 2: Specific viruses
Group 1 - Positive sense single stranded RNA viruses
7. Picornaviruses: polio, hepatitis A, and common cold
8. Astroviruses: gastroenteritis agents
9. Calciviruses: norovirus and gastroenteritis
10. Hepeviruses: hepatitis E
11. Togaviruses: mosquito borne, Chikungunya, Rubella, and a teratogen
12. Flaviviruses: mosquito borne, yellow fever, dengue, blood borne Hepatitis C
13. Coronaviruses: respiratory MERS, SARS
Group 2 - Negative sense single stranded RNA viruses
14. Myxoviruses: influenza A, B, C
15. Arenaviruses: Lassa and haemorrhagic fevers
16. Bunyaviruses: hanta, phlebo, and nairo viruses
17. Paramyxoviruses: respiratory syncytial virus, meta pneumo virus and emerging Hendra and Nipah
18. Filoviruses: zoonotic, Marburg, and Ebola
19. Rabies: zoonotic rabies
Group 3 - Double stranded RNA viruses
20. Reoviruses: rota and diarrhoea viruses
Group 4 - Double stranded DNA viruses
21. Polyomaviruses
22. Papillomaviruses: warts and cervical carcinoma
23. Herpes viruses: herpetic lesions, cancer, and encephalitis
24. Smallpox: human disease eradicated but zoonotic infections common
25. Adenovirus: respiratory, eye, and gastroenteritis viruses
Group 5 - Single stranded DNA viruses
26. Parvovirus: childhood rash, aplastic crisis, foetal infection
Group 6 - Single stranded positive sense RNA with an RT
27. Retroviruses: HIV 1 and 2 and HTLV
Group 7 - Circular double stranded DNA viruses with an RT
28. Hepadnaviruses: hepatitis B and D
Part 3: Practical aspects
29. The clinical virology laboratory: molecular techniques
30. Control of viral disease by immunisation
31. Antiviral chemotherapy