Viruses and human disease /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Strauss, James H.
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: Strauss, Ellen G.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier / Academic Press, ©2008.
Edition:2nd ed.
Subjects:
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Overview of viruses and virus infection
  • The structure of viruses
  • Plus-strand RNA viruses
  • Minus-strand RNA viruses
  • Viruses that contain double-stranded RNA : family reoviridae
  • Viruses whose life cycle uses reverse transcriptase
  • DNA-containing viruses
  • Emerging and reemerging viral diseases
  • Subviral agents
  • Host defenses against viral infection and viral counterdefenses
  • Gene therapy.