Human virology : a text for students of medicine, dentistry, and microbiology /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2000.
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- How it all began
- General properties and classification of viruses
- Viral replication and genetics
- How viruses cause disease
- Resistance to infection
- Viruses and cancer
- Viruses and the community
- Upper respiratory tract and eye infections due to adenoviruses, coronaviruses, 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
- Alphaherpesviruses
- Betaherpesviruses
- Gammaherpesviruses
- Introduction to the hepatitis viruses
- The bloodborne hepatitis viruses B and delta
- The enteric hepatitis viruses A and E
- The bloodborne hepatitis flaviviruses
- Retroviruses and AIDS
- Lyssavirus and rabies
- Arthropod-borne viruses
- Some exotic and dangerous infections : filoviruses, arenaviruses and hantaviruses
- Prion diseases : the spongiform encephalopathies
- Viral diseases of the central nervous system
- Intrauterine and perinatal infections
- Viral infections in patients with defective immunity
- Summary of viral respiratory infections
- Summary of sexually transmitted viral infections
- Resurgent and emergent viral infections
- The laboratory diagnosis of viral infections
- Control of viral diseases by immunization
- Antiviral chemotherapy