virology
/vʌɪˈrɒlədʒi
/noun [mass noun]
The branch of science that deals with the study of viruses.The Committee is comprised of scientific experts with experience in a variety of disciplines such as animal husbandry, animal behaviour, bacteriology, clinical medicine, epidemiology, parasitology and virology....
- The system has found wide application in the studies on morphogenesis, virology, pathology, biochemistry, genetics and other fields of biology and medicine.
- Specifically, it gives the mycologist a good overview of the current status of research in plant virology resp. bacteriology and vice versa.
Derivatives
virological
- The aim of the present study was to assess whether short-term, high-dose antioxidant treatment might have effects on immunological and virological parameters in patients with HIV infection.
- As these eagerly awaited dengue vaccines enter clinical trial, I wonder just how well we know our virological enemy or how the viruses will behave when we start to use a vaccine.
- On 4 April specimens obtained by throat swab were sent for virological studies, but they were negative for respiratory viruses.
virologically
- All patients with genital herpes should have at least one virologically confirmed diagnosis.
- Fifty nine pupils at the school were reported as having mumps, of which 20 cases were confirmed virologically.
- It is correct, that for the purposes of the algorithm, we have assumed that all persons with a positive heterophile antibody test had infectious mononucleosis and did not need to be routinely evaluated further virologically.
virologist
/ noun ...- The medics will include infectious disease specialists, microbiologists, virologists, and nurses who specialise in acute care or communicable disease control.
- Microbiologists and virologists are just as overworked and stressed as the rest of the medical profession.
- The discovery of these pig retroviruses was made in London in 1997 by virologist Dr Robin Weiss.