Emerging viruses /
| Format: | Book |
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1993.
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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