History of Virology

Lise Wilkinson, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London, UK

Published online: April 2001

DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0003075

A brief history of the development of virology as an academic, scientific discipline, and the influence of this development on the means of control of some of the world's major viral epidemic diseases.

Keywords: virology; virus diseases; bacteriophage; molecular biology

 Further Reading
    book Cairns J, Stent GS and Watson JD (eds) (1966) Phage and the Origins of Molecular Biology. New York: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory of Quantitative Biology.
    book Fenner F and Gibbs A (eds) (1988) Portraits of Viruses. A History of Virology. Basel: Karger.
    book Grafe A (1991) A History of Experimental Virology, Reckendorf E (transl.) Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
    book Morse SS (ed.) (1998) Emerging Viruses. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    book Oldstone MB (1998) Viruses, Plagues and History. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    book Waterson AP and Wilkinson L (1978) An Introduction to the History of Virology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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Wilkinson, Lise(Apr 2001) History of Virology. In: eLS. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester. http://www.els.net [doi: 10.1038/npg.els.0003075]