Emerging viruses /

Bibliographic Details
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Viruses and humankind : intracellular symbiosis and evolutionary competition
  • Examining the origins of emerging viruses
  • Viral emergence in historical context
  • Patterns of disease emergence in history
  • Influenza
  • Emerging viruses in context: an overview of viral hemorrhagic fevers
  • Viruses and the host
  • Ecology and evolution of host-virus associations
  • Pathogenesis of viral infections
  • Virus and cell : determinants of tissue tropism
  • Seeing the unseen: methods for detecting viruses
  • Virus detection systems
  • New technologies for virus detection
  • Tracking emerging viruses
  • Assessing geographic and transport factors, and recognition of new viruses
  • Phylogenetic moments in the AIDS epidemic
  • Ecological sources of emerging viruses
  • Arthropod-borne viruses
  • Hantaan (Korean Hemorrhagic Fever) and related rodent zoonoses
  • Filoviruses
  • Interspecies transfer: case studies of animal viruses that recently crossed species
  • Human monkeypox, a newly discovered human virus disease
  • Seal plague virus
  • Canine parvovirus 2: a probable example of interspecies transfer
  • How viruses evolve: variation and evolution of RNA viruses
  • Replication error, quasispecies populations, and extreme evolution rates of RNA viruses
  • High rate of retrovirus variation results in rapid evolution
  • Evolution of influenza and RNA viruses
  • Factors restraining emergence of new influenza viruses
  • Recombination in the evolution of RNA viruses
  • Evolutionary relationships of vectors and viruses
  • Prospects for the future
  • Global change and epidemiology: nasty synergies
  • Are we prepared for a viral epidemic emergency?
  • Surveillance systems and intergovernmental cooperation
  • Afterword : a personal summary presented as a guide for discussion