About the Division
The virology division has an educational role providing updated tutorials and lectures to under- as well as post graduate students including traditional as well as newly evolving viruses, viral life cycles, immunopathogenesis, latest diagnostic techniques as well as recently approved antiviral treatments and vaccines. The virology lab has the potential to diagnose viral infections on both molecular and serological levels. Various research virological studies are being conducted.
Staff members
Contact information
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Faculty of Medicine, University of Alexandria Street
Phone: 03-4861526
e-mail: Micro-Immunology@.alexmed.edu.eg
Curriculum
Undergraduate
General virology
- General features of viruses
- Classification of viruses
- Viral replication
- Bacteriophage
- Host response to viral infections
- Interferon
- Antiviral chemotherapy
- Viral vaccines
- Laboratory diagnosis of virus infections
- DNA viruses
- Parvoviruses
- Polyomaviruses
- Papillomaviruses
- Adenoviruses
- Pox viruses
- Herpesviruses
- Hepatitis viruses
- RNA viruses
- Picornaviruses
- Reoviruses (rotavirus)
- Toga viruses (Rubella)
- Arbo viruses (Toga, flavi, Bunya)
- Roboviruses (Arena, Bunya, filo)
- Orthomyxoviruses
- Coronaviruses
- Paramyxoviruses
- Rhabdoviruses
- Slow viral infections
- Retroviruses (HIV/AIDS)
- Viruses and human cancer.
- Medical Virology (General & Systematic)
- Viral Pathogenesis and Infection
- Advanced Course on Pathogenesis of Viral Infections and Antiviral Drugs
- Advanced Course in Systematic Virology