Human virology a text for students of medicine, dentistry, and microbiology
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford New York
Oxford University Press
2006.
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| Edition: | 3rd ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Virology : how it all began
- General properties of viruses
- Viral replication and genetics
- How viruses cause disease
- Resistance to virus infections
- Viruses and cancer in humans
- Viruses and the community
- Upper respiratory tract and eye infections due to adenoviruses, coronaviruses (including SARS CoV), and rhinoviruses
- Childhood infections caused by paramyxoviruses
- Orthomyxoviruses and influenza
- Gastroenteritis viruses
- Rubella : postnatal infections
- Parvoviruses
- Poxviruses
- Papovaviruses
- Poliomyelitis and other picornavirus infections
- The herpesviruses : general properties
- The alphaherpesviruses : herpes simplex and varicella-zoster
- The betaherpesviruses : cytomegalovirus and human herpesviruses 6 and 7
- The gammaherpesviruses : Epstein-barr virus and Kaposl's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus
- Introduction to the hepatitis viruses
- The blood-borne hepatitis viruses B and delta
- The enteric hepatitis viruses A and E
- The blood-borne hepatitis flaviviruses
- Retroviruses and AIDS
- Lyssavirus and rabies
- Arthropod-borne viruses
- Exotic and dangerous infections : filoviruses, arenaviruses, and hantaviruses
- Prions and the spongiform encephalopathies
- Viral diseases of the central nervous system
- Intrauterine and perinatal infections
- Viral infections in patients with defective immunity
- Respiratory infections
- Sexually transmitted viral infections
- Resurgent and emergent viral infections
- The laboratory diagnosis of viral infections
- Control of viral diseases by immunization
- Antiviral chemotherapy.