Useful Websites
- All about Hantavirus
- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provides comprehensive, updated information on the deadly disease caused by hantavirus.
- HIV/AIDS Fact Sheets
- CDC information concerning HIV and AIDS.
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- From the CDC home page you can link to a variety of CDC resources, including the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), the primary source of infectious disease epidemiology for the practicing physician. You can also link to the Journal of Emerging Infectious Diseases, a peer-reviewed electronic journal. Look at these sites for information on AIDS, E. coli breakouts, Ebola virus, and deer ticks.
- Dennis Kunkel's Image Microscopy
- Here you will find wonderful images of viruses, bacteria, and many other organisms.
- Cells Alive!
- This is an excellent site for learning about phages, rates of bacterial cell division, and antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
- Ebola Interview
- This is an interview with Dr. Frederick Murphy, the primary investigator in the 1995 Ebola outbreak in Zaire. There are also links to more information about the Ebola virus and other infectious diseases.
- HIV InSite: Gateway to AIDS Knowledge
- The University of California, San Francisco, has provided this comprehensive and reliable information on HIV/AIDS treatment, policy, research, epidemiology, and prevention.
- Molecular Genetics of Prokaryotes
- An online quiz about the regulation of prokaryotic gene expression.
- Virus Ultrastructure
- This site introduces you to the architecture of viruses and how scientists obtain images of them. The site is rich in detailed graphics of many common and uncommon animal viruses. The architecture of viruses and electron micrographs of various viruses that infect animals are explored (including herpesvirus, hepatitis B virus, influenza virus and many others). The Electron Micrograph link provides more information and images for analysis.
- Gene Expression Tutorial: Control
- A tutorial that uses the lac operon as an example of the regulation of gene expression in prokaryotic cells.
- Central Dogma: Negative Control
- Animations of the regulation of gene expression in prokaryotes.
- Central Dogma: Positive Control
- Animations of the regulation of gene expression in prokaryotes.
- Herpes Simplex Virus
- Learn about the replication of this enveloped DNA virus.
- Antibiotics Attack
- How antibiotics work and how bacteria are fighting back.
- BioInteractive's Animation Console: Viral Infection
- A short animation on viral infection.
- BioInteractive's Animation Console: Bacterial Conjugation
- A short animation on bacterial conjugation and how it contributes to the spread of antibiotic resistance.
- Transposons: Mobile DNA
- The section of Kimball's online text concerned with the nature of transposons.
- Genetic Recombination in Bacteria
- The section of Kimball's online text that discusses transformation, transduction, and conjugation.
