Emerging viruses /
New York, N.Y. ; Oxford : Oxford University Press,
1993.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Viruses and humankind: intracellular symbiosis and evolutionary competition / Joshua Lederberg -- Examining the origins of emerging viruses / Stephen S. Morse -- Viral emergence in historical context -- Patterns of disease emergence in history / William H. McNeill -- Influenza / Robert G. Webster -- Emerging viruses in context: an overview of viral hemorrhagic fevers / Karl M. Johnson -- Viruses and the host -- Ecology and evolution of host-virus associations / Robert M. May -- Pathogenesis of viral infections / Bernard N. Fields -- Virus and cell: determinants of tissue tropism / Thomas E. Shenk -- Seeing the unseen: methods for detecting viruses -- Virus detection systems / Douglas D. Richman -- New technologies for virus detection / David C. Ward -- Tracking emerging viruses -- Assessing geographic and transport factors, and recognition of new viruses / Robert E. Shope and Alfred S. Evans -- Phylogenetic moments in the AIDS epidemic / Gerald Myers, Kersti MacInnes and Lynda Myers.
(cont) Ecological sources of emerging viruses -- Arthropod-borne viruses / Thomas P. Monath -- Hantaan (Korean Hemorrhagic Fever) and related rodent zoonoses / James W. LeDuc ... [et al.] -- Filoviruses / C.J. Peters ... [et al.] -- Interspecies transfer: case studies of animal viruses that recently crossed species -- Human monkeypox, a newly discovered human virus disease / Frank Fenner -- Seal plague virus / Brian W.J. Mahy -- Canine parvovirus 2: a probable example of interspecies transfer / Colin R. Parrish -- How viruses evolve: variation and evolution of RNA viruses -- Replication error, quasispecies populations, and extreme evolution rates of RNA viruses / John Holland -- High rate of retrovirus variation results in rapid evolution / Howard M. Temin -- Evolution of influenza and RNA viruses / Peter Palese -- Factors restraining emergence of new influenza viruses / Brian Murphy -- Recombination in the evolution of RNA viruses / James H. Strauss -- Evolutionary relationships of vectors and viruses / Bruce F. Eldridge.
(cont) Prospects for the future -- Global change and epidemiology: nasty synergies / Thomas E. Lovejoy -- Are we prepared for a viral epidemic emergency? / Llewellyn J. Legters, Linda H. Brink and Ernest T. Takafuji -- Surveillance systems and intergovernmental cooperation / Donald A. Henderson -- Afterword: a personal summary presented as a guide for discussion / Edwin D. Kilbourne.
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