A biologist sets up a liquid-handling robot in order to perform a PCR (polymerase chain reaction) analysis to detect the presence of herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2).

Credit

Public domain/ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/ Hsi Liu, Ph.D., MBA and James Gathany, content providers/ 2007

Source

http://phil.cdc.gov/phil/imageidsearch.asp (Image ID # 10030)

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Herpes viruses

January 9, 2013 jbrehm2

Description

This electron micrograph shows variola, varicella, and vaccinia virions.

Credit

Public domain/ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/ Dr. James Nakano, content provider/ 1975

Source

http://phil.cdc.gov/phil/imageidsearch.asp (Image ID # 2426)

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Varicella (chickenpox) virus

January 9, 2013 jbrehm2

Description

This electron micrograph shows the varicella (chickenpox) virus.

Credit

Public domain/ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/ Dr. Erskine Palmer and B.G. Partin, content providers/ 1982

Source

http://phil.cdc.gov/phil/imageidsearch.asp (Image ID # 1878)

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Electron micrograph of human herpes virus type 6

January 9, 2013 jbrehm2

Description

This electron micrograph shows herpes virus type 6 (HHV-6) maturing and being released from a white blood cell. HHV-6 is a double-stranded DNA virus.

Credit

Public domain/ Laboratory of Tumor Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute/ Bernard Kramarsky, photographer/ 1986

Source

http://visualsonline.cancer.gov/details.cfm?imageid=2256

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Human herpes virus type 6

January 9, 2013 jbrehm2

Description

This electron micrograph shows human herpes virus type 6 (HHV-6), which is a double-stranded DNA virus.

Credit

Public domain/ Laboratory of Tumor Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute/ Bernard Kramarsky, photographer/ 1986

Source

http://visualsonline.cancer.gov/details.cfm?imageid=2257

Image wall, Microbe SEMS

Electron micrograph of herpes simplex virus

January 9, 2013 jbrehm2

Description

This electron micrograph shows numerous virions of herpes simplex virus.

Credit

Public domain/ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/ Dr. Fred Murphy and Sylvia Whitfield, content providers/ 1975

Source

http://phil.cdc.gov/phil/imageidsearch.asp (Image ID # 10230)

Image wall, Microbe SEMS

Electron micrographs of herpes viruses

January 9, 2013 jbrehm2

Description

These electron micrograph images show herpes viruses, including varicella-zoster virus (chickenpox virus), and herpes simplex virus types 1 and 2 (HSV-1, HSV-2).