Students' Guide to Human Viruses

The text provides concise and updated information on major human viruses, with emphasis on their structure and the diseases they may cause. The material is organized by using the viral classification approach as an alternative to the organ system or disease approach. The text offers an overview of viral diseases for students and their instructors, clinicians, researches, and anyone in need of a thorough primer on the matter.

Igor V. Zaitsev was born and raised in Irkutsk City, Russia. At the age of twenty-four, he got his PhD in biology from Irkutsk State University, the oldest university in Siberia. He completed his postdoctoral studies at Yale University, USA, where he researched Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a human infectious disease similar to scrapie and mad cow disease. Presently, he is a tenured associate professor at the City University of New York. His studies were published in the Lancet, Science magazine, Journal of Virology, Journal of College Science Teaching, American Biology Teacher, and many other national and international journals. He lives in Manhattan, his permanent home.