Understanding viruses
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Sudbury, MA :
Jones & Bartlett ,
c2009
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| 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