For virology related guidelines please see our Guidelines page
The UK CVN has an institutional subscription to Reviews in Medical Virology, for instructions on access please see the discussion on the Message Board.
Laboratory Websites
- Virus Reference Department (VRD), Colindale, PHE – User manual, forms
- Rare and Imported Pathogens Laboratory (RIPL) – User manual, form
- National Collection of Pathogenic Viruses (NCPV), a Culture Collection of PHE
- The National Collection of Pathogenic Viruses (NCPV) preserves well characterised, authenticated human pathogenic viruses in a secure facility, and is able to supply the agents, or nucleic acids derived from them, to the scientific community according to national and international guides. The collection is primarily comprised of human pathogenic viruses requiring handling at UK biosafety levels 3 or 4, but has expanded to encompass hazard group 2 pathogens. Most of the material is in the form of cell-cultured virus stocks.
- Antimicrobial Reference Laboratory (Aciclovir, Ganciclovir TDM)
- Anti-retroviral TDM
- Hepatitis B infected healthcare workers
- Human Papillomavirus
- Scottish Human Papilloma Reference Laboratory
- Human papillomavirus and hepatitis C virus reference unit at VRD
- Herpes B virus at the High Containment Microbiology Department, VRD (page 34 of User manual)
- Herpes simplex virus type-specific serology
- Lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV) at the High Containment Microbiology Department, VRD (page 34 of User manual)
- Poxviruses at the High Containment Microbiology Department, VRD (page 34 of User manual)
- Bartonella henseale / B.quintana (Cat Scratch Disease) serology at Respiratory and systemic bacteria section (request form R1, user manual page 36) of Bacteriology reference department (BRD), PHE
- Brucella reference unit (BRU) – Guides, form
- Borrelia burgdorferi (Lyme disease/ Lyme borreliosis)
- Coxiella burnetti (Q-fever) at RIPL
- Francisella tularensis at RIPL
- Leptospira interogans (Leptospirosis)
- National Leptospirosis Service (NLS) at RIPL
- Lymphogranuloma venereum
- Toxoplasma gondii
- Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE’s)
Sources
- Emerging infections: monthly summaries (PHE, Defra, APHA)
- TRAVAX – Up-to-date travel health information for health care professionals
- Vaccine Update, PHE
- Routine childhood immunisation schedule, PHE
- The complete routine immunisation schedule, PHE
Virology News
- ProMED-mail
- HealthMap
- Medscape – Infectious diseases
- Medpage Today – Infectious diseases
- Nature – Virology news
Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
- Royal College of Pathologists CPD portfolio
- Clinical care options – HIV
- Clinical care options – Hepatitis
- Medscape – Infectious diseases
- Medscape – HIV
- Medscape – Public health
- inPractice – HIV
- inPractice – Hepatology
- American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD)
- International Antiviral Society–USA
Teaching/training resources
Royal College of Pathologists including:
SIMs: UK Standards for Microbiology Investigations
eHealth – PHE eLearning including:
- Ebola
- Pandemic influenza
- Rabies
- Smallpox
International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV)
e-Learning for Healthcare including:
- Equality & Diversity
- Flu Immunisation
- Leadership for Clinicians
- Management and Leadership Skills
- Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare
- Sexual Health and HIV
BMJ learning (for Foundation doctors) including:
- Therapeutics: Antivirals for herpes simplex viruses
- Dengue fever
- Herpes simplex type 1 oral infection: a guide to diagnosis and treatment
- HIV: basic treatment principles – in association with Chelsea and Westminster Hospital
- HIV: treatment considerations and side effects – in association with Chelsea and Westminster Hospital
- HIV testing and management of newly diagnosed HIV
- Infectious mononucleosis
- Influenza vaccinations
- Management of acute infective conjunctivitis
- Management of chronic hepatitis B infection
- Measles: diagnosis and management
- Mumps: diagnosis, treatment, and prevention
- Norovirus – how to reduce transmission and manage a hospital outbreak
- The prevention and management of rabies
- Sexually transmitted infections: diagnostic picture tests
The UK CVN would be grateful for recommendations for additions to this page. Please contact Eleri Wilson-Davies ([email protected]) with the details of the resource or use the Contact page.