Understanding viruses

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shors, Teri (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Sudbury, MA : Jones & Bartlett , c2009
Subjects:
Online Access:Table of contents only
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to viruses
  • Eukaryotic molecular biology and host cell constraints
  • Virus replication cycles
  • Virus architecture and nomenclature
  • Laboratory diagnosis of viral diseases
  • Mechanisms of viral entry and spread of infection in the body
  • Host resistance to viral infections
  • Epidemiology
  • The history of medicine, clinical trials, gene therapy, and xenotransplantation
  • Viruses and cancer
  • Poliovirus and other enteroviruses
  • Influenza viruses
  • Rabies
  • Poxviruses
  • Herpesviruses
  • Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
  • Hepatitis viruses
  • New viruses and viruses that are reemerging
  • What about prions and viroids?
  • Plant viruses
  • The best for last: bacteriophages