MICR 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Rous Sarcoma Virus, Tobacco Mosaic Virus, Hepatitis C Virus
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1892 dimitrii ivanovsky observed that agent of tobacco mosaic disease passes through porcelain lters that retain bacteria. 1898 matinus beijerinck made the same observation; concluded that the pathogen must be a distinctive agent. 1898 friedrich loef er and paul frosch (former students of koch), nd that causative agent of foot-and-mouth disease is lterable (the rst animal virus) 1901 yellow fever virus w. reed (the rst human virus) 1908 - poliovirus (k. landsteiner and e. popper); chicken leukemia virus (ellerman, bang) 1933 human in uenza virus (w. smith, c. andrewes, p. laidlaw) 1934 mumps virus (c. johnson, e. goodpasture) 1961 discovery of the triplet coding of dna (bacteriophage) (f. crick et al) 1967 hepatitis b virus (b. blumberg et a) 1973 hepatitis a virus (s. feinstone et al) 1975 rna splicing in adenovirus (p sharp et al1976 ebola virus (k. johnson et al)