Virus dynamics
Subtitle: mathematical principles of immunology and virology
By: Martin A. Nowak, Robert M. May.
Contributors: May, Robert M. 1936-
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
Subjects: Virus diseases -- Mathematical models.; Immune response -- Mathematical models.; Virus Activation -- immunology.; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- virology.; HIV -- ultrastructure.; Models, Theoretical.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-232) and index.
Table of contents: title: Ch. 1. Introduction: viruses, immunity, equations; title: Ch. 2. HIV; title: Ch. 3. The basic model of virus dynamics; title: Ch. 4. Anti-viral drug therapy; title: 5. Dynamics of hepatitis B virus; title: Ch. 6. Dynamics of immune responses; title: Ch. 7. How fast do immune responses eliminate infected cells?; title: Ch. 8. What is a quasispecies?; title: Ch. 9. The frequency of resistant mutant virus before anti-viral therapy; title: Ch. 10. Emergence of drug resistance; title: Ch. 11. Timing the emergence of resistance; title: Ch. 12. Simple antigenic variation; title: Ch. 13. Advanced antigenic variation; title: Ch. 14. Multiple epitopes; title: Ch. 15. Everything we know so far and beyond.