TY - JOUR AU - de Souza, Gabriel Augusto Pires AU - Queiroz, Victória Fulgêncio AU - Lima, Maurício Teixeira AU - de Sousa Reis, Erik Vinicius AU - Coelho, Luiz Felipe Leomil AU - Abrahão, Jônatas Santos PY - 2020 DA - 2020/01/31 TI - Virus goes viral: an educational kit for virology classes JO - Virology Journal SP - 13 VL - 17 IS - 1 AB - Viruses are the most numerous entities on Earth and have also been central to many episodes in the history of humankind. As the study of viruses progresses further and further, there are several limitations in transferring this knowledge to undergraduate and high school students. This deficiency is due to the difficulty in designing hands-on lessons that allow students to better absorb content, given limited financial resources and facilities, as well as the difficulty of exploiting viral particles, due to their small dimensions. The development of tools for teaching virology is important to encourage educators to expand on the covered topics and connect them to recent findings. Discoveries, such as giant DNA viruses, have provided an opportunity to explore aspects of viral particles in ways never seen before. Coupling these novel findings with techniques already explored by classical virology, including visualization of cytopathic effects on permissive cells, may represent a new way for teaching virology. This work aimed to develop a slide microscope kit that explores giant virus particles and some aspects of animal virus interaction with cell lines, with the goal of providing an innovative approach to virology teaching. SN - 1743-422X UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12985-020-1291-9 DO - 10.1186/s12985-020-1291-9 ID - de Souza2020 ER -