Human polyomaviruses : molecular and clinical perspectives /

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Human polyomaviruses (Online)
Other Authors: Khalili, Kamel, 1951-, Stoner, Gerald L., 1943-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Wiley-Liss, [2001]
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book.
Table of Contents:
  • Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML ): the discovery of a neurologic disease
  • Virions in progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy : a discovery at the interface of neuropathology, virology and oncology
  • Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) : cultivation and characterization of the etiologic agent
  • Serendipity - the fortuitous discovery of BK virus
  • The human polyomaviruses : an overview
  • Transcription and replication in the human polyomaviruses
  • The archetype concept and regulatory region rearrangement
  • Synthesis and assembly of polyomavirus virions
  • Cellular receptors for the polyomaviruses
  • Latent and persistent polyomavirus infection
  • Clinical progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy : diagnosis and treatment
  • The neuropathology of PML and the pathogenesis of JC virus brain infection
  • Laboratory findings in PML
  • Molecular biology of BK virus and clinical and basic aspects of BK virus renal infection
  • JC virus in experimental and clinical brain tumorigenesis
  • Evidence for BK virus as a human tumor virus
  • SV40 and human tumors
  • Molecular evolution and epidemiology of JC virus
  • The epidemiology of BK virus and the occurrence of antigenic and genomic subtypes
  • The epidemiology of SV40 infection due to contaminated polio vaccines : relation of the virus to human cancer
  • The immune response to SV40, JCV and BKV
  • The human polyovaviruses : past, present, and future