Biodefense
Subtitle: research methodology and animal models
By: editor, James R. Swearengen
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Boca Raton
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781439836323
Subjects: Research Design; Bioterrorism; Toxicity; Animal Models; Biological Toxins
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: History of biological agents as weapons / James W. Martin; title: Bioterrorism and biowarfare : similarities and differences / Nelson W. Rebert; title: Scientific and ethical importance of animal models in biodefense research / James R. Swearengen and Arthur O. Anderson; title: Development and validation of animal models / Jaime B. Anderson and Kenneth Tucker; title: Infectious disease aerobiology : aerosol challenge methods / Chad J. Roy and Louise M. Pitt; title: Characterization of new and advancement of existing animal models of bacillus anthracis infection / Elizabeth K. Leffel and Louise M. Pitt; title: Glanders / David L. Fritz and David M. Waag; title: Plague / Jeffery J. Adamovicz and Patricia L. Worsham; title: Tularemia / Jeffery J. Adamovicz and David M. Waag; title: Q fever / David M. Waag and David L. Fritz; title: Brucellosis / Bret K. Purcell and Robert Rivard; title: Alphaviruses / William D. Pratt ... [et al.]; title: Orthopoxviruses / Peter B. Jahrling and Victoria Wahl-Jensen; title: Animal models for viral hemorrhagic fevers / Kelly l. Warfield and Thomas W. Geisbert; title: Botulinum toxins / Stephen B. Greenbaum, Jaime B. Anderson, and Frank J. Lebeda; title: Ricin / Stephen B. Greenbaum and Jaime B. Anderson; title: Staphylococcal and streptococcal superantigens : in vitro and in vivo assays / Teresa Krakauer and Bradley G. Stiles.