Understanding viruses
By: by Teri Shors
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Burlington, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 704
ISBN-13: 9780763785536; 9781449648923
Subjects: Virus Physiological Phenomena; Viruses; Virus diseases; Virus Diseases
Other titles: Viruses
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to viruses; title: Eukaryotic molecular biology and host cell constraints; title: Virus architecture and nomenclature; title: Virus replication cycles; title: Laboratory diagnosis of viral diseases and working with viruses in the reseach laboratory; title: Mechanisms of viral entry and spread of infection in the body; title: Host resistance to viral infections; title: Epidemiology; title: The history of medicine, clinical trials, gene therapy, and xenotransplantation; title: Viruses and cancer; title: Poliovirus and other enteroviruses; title: Influenza viruses; title: Rabies; title: Poxviruses; title: Herpesviruses; title: Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV); title: Hepatitis viruses; title: New viruses and viruses that are reemerging; title: What about prions and viroids?; title: Plant viruses; title: The best for last : bacteriophages.