Includes bibliographical references and index.

Diagnostic approaches -- Viral transmission: infection acquired by the blood-borne route -- Viral transmission: infection acquired by all other routes (respiratory, eye-nose-mouth, inoculation and faeco-orally) -- Emerging virus infections -- Vaccinology -- Herpes simplex virus type 1 and type 2 -- Varicella zoster -- Cytomegalovirus -- Epstein-barr virus -- Roseoloviruses: human herpesviruses 6A, 6B, and 7 -- Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (human herpesvirus 8) -- Hepatitis viruses -- GB virus C (GBV-C) and torque teno virus (TTV) -- Rotaviruses -- Viruses other than rotaviruses associated with acute diarrhoeal disease -- Influenza -- Parainfuenza viruses -- Respiratory syncytial virus -- Adenoviruses -- Rhinoviruses -- Coronaviruses and toroviruses -- Measles virus -- Rubella -- Mumps -- Enteroviruses -- Poxviruses -- Alphaviruses -- Flaviviruses -- Bunyaviridae -- Arenoviruses -- Filoviruses -- Rabies and other lyssavirus infections -- Papillomaviruses -- The human polyomaviruses -- Human parvoviruses -- Human retroviruses -- The human T-lymphotropic viruses -- Human immunodeficiency viruses -- Human prion diseases.