Slow virus diseases of animals and man /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Kimberlin, Richard H.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : New York : North-Holland Publishing Company ; American Elsevier, 1976.
Series:Frontiers of biology (Amsterdam) ; v. 44.
North-Holland research monographs.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • General introduction to som slow virus diseases
  • Maedi and visna in sheep
  • The detailed structure of visna-maedi virus
  • The pathology of visna and maedi in sheep
  • Visna-maedi virus infection in cell culture and in laboratory animals
  • Pathogenesis of visna : review and speculation
  • The epizootiology of Aleutian disease
  • Purification and structure of Aleutian disease virus
  • Pathology and pathogenesis of Aleutian disease
  • Scrapie in sheep and goats
  • Thje physico-chemical nature of the scrapie agent
  • The pathology of natural and experimental scrapie
  • Biochemical and behavioural changes in scrapie
  • The pathogenesis of scrapie in mice
  • The subacute spongiform encephalopathies
  • Some final comments on visna-maedi, Aleutian disease and scrapie.