Product Description
Ideal for the student seeking a solid understanding of the basic principles in this rapidly developing field, this best-selling text offers a comprehensive introduction to the fundamentals of virology. Featuring an enhanced art program now in full-color, the new edition has been updated throughout.

New edition incorporates additional reading suggestions, expanded review questions, chapter outlines and full-colour artwork

Contains new chapters dealing with viruses and cancer, generation and use of recombinant viruses and virus-like particles, viral evolution, network biology and viruses, and animal models and transgenics, as well as a chapter devoted to HIV and AIDS

Downloadable artwork, original animations and online resources are available at www.blackwellpublishing.com/wagner

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 3.0 based on 5 reviews)

Good start

For a student just taking one course on Virology, it is a fairly good text. The basics are all there. The organization and readability is expected for any college student with a solid scientific background.

Learning about virology beyond just a beginning course would obviously take a more in depth text, but as the title suggests, it is BASIC VIROLOGY.
September 26, 2008

Extremely basic, but hard to follow

This text was a real disappointment to me. Having taught microbiology for a number of years and looking for something to expand my understanding and knowledge of the field of virology, I was sorry that I added this book to my reference library. All in all, I found it to be poorly written and only slightly informative; at least from my perspective.
December 09, 2005

Unorganized, Too Wordy, and Confusing

The information is not coherent and is scattered all over the place. Points that could be made in one sentence are stretched out over many paragraphs. Furthermore, the usage of words are often inappropriate in many cases (looks like the authors just ran a thesaurus check) which makes the text very confusing. This book is definitely not recommended for someone without a background in Virology.
September 26, 2003

A Great Textbook

This is a great book! The method at which the material is presented rivals that of medical textbooks. The graphics and illustration are great! Go UC Irvine! Spcial Events Parking Rocks!
December 02, 2002

A good investment for any microbiology student.

The information presented in this book was very helpful in my understanding of virology. The text was very easily followed and subjects presented in a straightforward manner. Basic Virology is a must have!
June 14, 2000

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