Contents: Preface to Second Edition -- Preface to First Edition -- Abbreviations Used in This Book -- Greek Letters Used in This Book -- Color Coding for Molecules -- Viruses and Their Importance -- Methods Used in Virology -- Virus Structure -- Virus Transmission -- Attachment and Entry of Viruses into Cells -- Transcription, Translation, and Transport -- Virus Genome Replication -- Assembly and Exit of Virions from Cells -- Outcomes of Infection for the Host -- Classification and Nomenclature of Viruses -- Herpesviruses (and Other dsDNA Viruses) -- Parvoviruses (and Other ssDNA Viruses) -- Reoviruses (and Other dsRNA Viruses) -- Picornaviruses (and Other Plus-Strand RNA Viruses) -- Rhabdoviruses (and Other Minus-Strand RNA Viruses) -- Influenza Virus -- Retroviruses -- Human Immunodeficiency Viruses -- Hepadnaviruses (and Other Reverse-Transcribing DNA Viruses) -- Bacterial Viruses -- Origins and Evolution of Viruses -- Emerging Viruses -- Viruses and Cancer -- Survival of Infectivity -- Virus Vaccines -- Anti-viral Drugs -- Prions -- Virologists' Vocabulary.