AA+Virus+Resources

=Resource List = ====**The following sites may prove useful for your research. Please keep a record of which resources you take your information from. If you are having difficulty finding certain information about your pathogen, ask Mr. Neilson or Mrs. Moody for help searching.**====

All the Virology on the Web http://www.virology.net/ Click menu on left to see table of contents. Links to specific virus sites links and other resources.

Big Picture Book of Viruses http://www.virology.net/Big_Virology/BVHomePage.html See links menu on left. Also links to the ICTV database...viral taxonomy.

Centre for Disease Control Special Pathogens Branch http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/spb/index.htm See menu to left. Check out technical info when specific virus page is accessed.

Centre for Disease Control Advanced Search page http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/search/advanced_search.htm With proper keywords, most human viral diseases listed here

Universal Virus Database ICTV http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ICTVdb/Ictv/ICTVindex.htm

World Health Organization http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/en/

Health Canada Diseases and Conditions http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/dc-ma/index_e.html Use the search field.

Public Health Image Library...useful images of viruses and disease symptoms http://phil.cdc.gov/phil/home.asp

Disease Database...information aggregator http://www.diseasesdatabase.com/

Health Protection Agency http://www.hpa.org.uk/infections/topics_az/norovirus/menu.htm

Institute of Human Virology http://www.ihv.org Use the search field

Viral Bioinformatics Resource Centre http://athena.bioc.uvic.ca/bioDoc/

Medline Plus..viral infections page http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/viralinfections.html See menu on right side of page

VisualHealth http://www.visualdxhealth.com/ Use search field at top of page. Some pix of viral symtoms...e.g. herpes...warts. Lists links even if no pix.

Additional Virus Research Resources
ERAC Web Portal [] Four databases available to SD34 students. Try CPI.Q and the Student Resource Centre…note you can search for particular media types, including books and magazines. When accessing this site from outside of RBSS: Username:34rbss Password: student EBSCO [|http://search.ebscohost.com]/ Great starting point...links to other resources at bottom of most articles. If accessing from outside school... Username:rbs34 Password: pass34 Virus Ultra Structure: [] See the Virology Lecture Notes and other items on menu at left.

Google Scholar http://scholar.google.ca/ Find abstracts and full text of scholarly works on viruses.

Another technique to find scholarly info via search engines: Type the keywords you want e.g. mumps vaccine… followed by site:edu or filetype:pdf

Try also… Infomine…a scholarly internet resource collection []

Bubl Link Catalogue of Internet Resources Useful but many of the links are on the sheet you already have. []