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يتناول المقرر المواضيع التالية: 

• Virus structure and role of their components in tropism, replication and infectivity.
• Bacteriophages: principles and applications
• Methods of virus transmission in different hosts (animal, plants, bacteria, fungi and algae)
• Techniques in virus diagnosis and propagation
• Details in virus replication in the molecular level
• Recent updates in virus classification and nomenclature: hands on ICTV
• Viruses origin and evolution
• Viruses and vaccine technology: viruses as targets and as vectors.
• Antiviral drugs development and mechanisms of action of some main drugs.
• Application of viruses; agriculture, ecology and for human health
• Virus epidemiology: definitions, calculations and research methods