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Virus dynamics : mathematical principles of immunology and virology /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nowak, M. A. (Martin A.)
Other Authors: May, Robert M. (Robert McCredie), 1936-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
Subjects:
Virus Activation > immunology.
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome > virology.
HIV > ultrastructure.
Models, Theoretical.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: viruses, immunity, equations
  • HIV
  • The basic model of virus dynamics
  • Anti-viral drug therapy
  • Dynamics of hepatitis B virus
  • Dynamics of immune responses
  • How fast do immune responses eliminate infected cells?
  • What is a quasispecies?
  • The frequency of resistant mutant virus before anti-viral therapy
  • Emergence of drug resistance
  • Timing the emergence of resistance
  • Simple antigenic variation
  • Advanced antigenic variation
  • Multiple epitopes
  • Everything we know so far and beyond.