Is Virology Dead?
Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: Mark Twain once remarked that the reports of his death weregreatly exaggerated. So too, the death of virology. In certain quarters, it is now fashionable to declare the passing of virology. “Viruses are retro, ” a faculty colleague once told me, deadly serious. We have heard this before. In 1967, the U.S. Surgeon General allegedly proclaimed, “The time has come to close the book on infectious disease. We have basically wiped out infection in the United States ” (1). This was before the arrival of AIDS and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and the discovery of hepatitis C virus, before the fear of an avian flu pandemic and bioterrorism. Virology was once held in high esteem. In the first half of the 20th century, plant viruses held center stage. Studies of mosaic disease of tobacco revealed the existence of a new class of infec-tious agents smaller than bacteria, and tobacco mosaic virus taught us that viruses could be crystallized, disassembled, and re-
Source: mBio
Author: Daniel DiMaio
Institutions: Yale Cancer Center, Yale University
Language: English
Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $3,900
Awards: CELL TRANSFORMATION BY BOVINE PAPILLOMAVIRUS, G2501456862, Cell Transformation by Bovine Papillomavirus, G5050614817, G6059649696, Role of Retromer-mediated Retrograde Transport in HPV Entry, Molecular Basis of Cancer Virus Replication, Transformation, and Innate Defense, G9000132752, G9000325162
OpenAlex ID: W2153660121