Virologist

The virologist is a specialist in the field of studying of the smallest intracellular parasites – the viruses causing various diseases of the person, animals and plants. The medical virologist specializes in a research of the viruses causing diseases in the person (pathogenic viruses), studying of their infectious features and properties develops diagnostic methods, treatments and prevention of the diseases caused by them.

Вирусолог – это специалист в области изучения мельчайших внутриклеточных паразитов – вирусов, вызывающих различные заболевания человека, животных и растений

The modern medicine cannot almost be presented without all those achievements that were reached by virologists. Among these achievements and creation of vaccines, the medicines intended for prevention and treatment of various infectious diseases. Thanks to work of virologists it was succeeded to win completely against such dreadful disease as natural smallpox which last century claimed annually thousands of the lives, and many people did by disabled people.

In what cases consultation of the virologist is necessary?

With any indispositions patients usually address originally the therapist or the pediatrician. But in some cases, at suspicion on the virus nature of a disease of the patient direct to consultation to the virologist who conducts more profound examination of the patient, makes the diagnosis and appoints treatment.

With what complaints come to reception to the virologist?

Quite often patients can suspect at themselves the beginning of developing of a viral disease. At emergence of the following symptoms it is necessary to register in reception to the virologist:

Emergence of fever;
Various nature of a rash on mucous membranes and integuments;
The expressed headaches;
The expressed radicular or muscular pains;
Sleeplessness;
Gastrointestinal frustration;
Depression or on the contrary excessive excitement;
Dryness in a mouth;
Morbidity in lymph nodes;
Yellowness of integuments and scleras.

During reception the virologist will collect the anamnesis (history) of life and development of a disease, will examine the patient, will appoint to it necessary analyses including virologic methods of a research.

It is especially important to come to consultation to the virologist if you had a rest in any exotic country, and having arrived home found in themselves one or several of the listed above symptoms. It is quite possible that being on vacation, you could catch an infectious disease. You should not spend time for self-diagnostics and self-treatment. Only the doctor the virologist having conducted necessary examination, will be able to make the correct diagnosis and to appoint full effective treatment.

Remember that in the tropical countries it is possible to catch some deadly viral diseases which begin to be shown not at once, and after a while. Many of them, in particular hemorrhagic fevers, begin as banal cold or flu, later the hemorrhagic symptom which is shown developing of bleedings joins these symptoms as leads to death. Only the experienced doctor the virologist will be able to carry out diagnosis of similar diseases, to put correct, and the most important the timely diagnosis, to appoint a course of treatment. If necessary the virologist can create the serum intended for treatment of fevers.

What diseases the virologist treats?

The virologist is engaged in treatment of all infectious diseases which causative agents are viruses. Treat them:

Rubella;
Herpes;
Viral papillomas;
Viral hepatitis;
Measles;
Epidemic parotitis;
Rage;
Tick-borne encephalitis;
Smallpox;
Flu and many others.

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