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Understanding Viruses
The Second Edition of Understanding Viruses provides a balanced approach to this fascinating discipline, combining the molecular, clinical, and historical aspects of virology and gives a comprehensive introduction to human viral diseases. Chapters discussing speci? c viral diseases weave in an epi...
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Jones & Bartlett Learning
2013
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. [ International Edition ] |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction to viruses
- Eukaryotic molecular biology and host cell constraints
- Virus architecture and nomenclature
- Virus replication cycles
- Laboratory diagnosis of viral diseases and working with viruses in the research laboratory
- 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.