TK41: Virus 1 Test Kit
Viruses are the smallest known type of infective agent.
Outside of living cells viruses are inert.
They invade living cells, take them over and make copies of themselves.
Not susceptible to antibiotics.
Code
Virus
Medically recognised possible
symptoms & effects
Comment
VI 1
Coxsackie
Tonsillitis/ pharyngitis, childhood pneumonia, upper respiratory tract infection, greyish ulcers of soft palate and fauces, Bornholm disease, fever, hand foot and mouth disease, flaccid paralysis, viral meningitis
24 group A and six group B.
VI 2
Cytomegalovirus/
CMV
Tonsillitis/ pharyngitis, encephalitis, hepatitis
VI 3
Epstein-Barr
Virus/
EBV
Infectious mononucleosis, tonsillitis/ pharyngitis, glandular fever, encephalitis, hepatitis, implicated in nasopharyngeal carcinoma and lymphomas, viral meningitis.
VI 4
Hepatitis A/
HAV
Acute hepatitis.
Particularly prevalent in developing countries. In developed nations 20% of young adults show serological evidence of past infection.
VI 5
Hepatitis B/
HBV
Acute and chronic viral hepatitis, implicated in primary liver cancer
0.1% of UK population estimated to be carriers.
VI 6
Hepatitis C/
HCV
Acute and chronic viral hepatitis, implicated in primary liver cancer
VI 7 Virus
Herpes Simplex
Type 1 /HSV
Tonsillitis/ pharyngitis, cold sores, whitlows (infections at tip of finger)), encephalitis, oral and genital ulcers (cold sores).
Some research links it to dementia.
VI 8
Herpes Simplex
Type 2 / HSV
Genital ulcers.
VI 9
Herpes
Zoster
Shingles.
VI 10
Human
Immunodeficiency
Virus/
HIV
Tonsillitis/ pharyngitis, encephalitis
VI 11
Influenza
Influenza
Singapore A, Sichnan A, Beijing A, Shangdong A, Panama B, Yamagata B strains in this vial
VI 12
Measles
Virus
Fever and running nose, cough followed by rash, viral meningitis.
VI 13
Mumps
Virus
Headache, sore throat and fever with enlarged salivary glands.
VI 14
Papilloma
Human Virus/
HPV
Warts, verrucae, implicated in cancer of the cervix.
VI 15
Polio
Virus
Poliomyelitis
3 types. Type 1 most virulent.
VI 16
Respiratory
Syncytial Virus/
RSV
Croup, common cold, childhood pneumonia.
Asthma sometimes starts after an infection with this virus.
VI 17
Rubella Virus/
German Measles
German measles, rash
VI 18
Smallpox
Virus
Smallpox, influenza-type illness, pus-filled blisters.
It is believed that no reservoirs of this virus are now left outside of laboratories.
VI 19
Varicella
Zoster
Chickenpox
VI 20
Yellow Fever
Virus
Hepatitis
Occurs in tropical areas of Africa and South America.
VI 21
Parvovirus
Causes slapped cheek disease (fifth disease / erythema infectiosum); a distinctive red, lacy-like rash on cheeks (and sometimes other parts of body), headache, fever; occurs most often in children; 20% to 30% symptom-free even though infected; in adults can cause joint pains and swelling, miscarriages in the first 20 weeks of pregnancy; can cause chronic anaemia in those with HIV or who have had organ transplants.
Thought that 60% of all adults in the UK have been infected with Parvovirus at some point, usually as a child (NHS Direct).
References:
B. K. Mandal et al Infectious Diseases
G.O. Cowan & B.J. Heap Clinical Tropical Medicine
D J Weatherall et al Oxford Textbook of Medicine Volume 1
BMA Complete Family Health Encyclopaedia
P. Cox & P. Brusseau Secret Ingredients
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