Human virology
Subtitle: a text for students of medicine, dentistry, and microbiology
By: Leslie Collier and John Oxford ; with illustrations by Jim Pipkin.
Contributors: Oxford, J. S.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9780198566601
Subjects: Medical virology.; Virus diseases.; Virology -- methods.; Virus Diseases -- microbiology.; Virus Replication.; Viruses -- pathogenicity.
Notes: Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Virology : how it all began; title: General properties of viruses; title: Viral replication and genetics; title: How viruses cause disease; title: Resistance to virus infections; title: Viruses and cancer in humans; title: Viruses and the community; title: Upper respiratory tract and eye infections due to adenoviruses, coronaviruses (including SARS CoV), and rhinoviruses; title: Childhood infections caused by paramyxoviruses; title: Orthomyxoviruses and influenza; title: Gastroenteritis viruses; title: Rubella : postnatal infections; title: Parvoviruses; title: Poxviruses; title: Papovaviruses; title: Poliomyelitis and other picornavirus infections; title: The herpesviruses : general properties; title: The alphaherpesviruses : herpes simplex and varicella-zoster; title: The betaherpesviruses : cytomegalovirus and human herpesviruses 6 and 7; title: The gammaherpesviruses : Epstein-barr virus and Kaposl's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus; title: Introduction to the hepatitis viruses; title: The blood-borne hepatitis viruses B and delta; title: The enteric hepatitis viruses A and E; title: The blood-borne hepatitis flaviviruses; title: Retroviruses and AIDS; title: Lyssavirus and rabies; title: Arthropod-borne viruses; title: Exotic and dangerous infections : filoviruses, arenaviruses, and hantaviruses; title: Prions and the spongiform encephalopathies; title: Viral diseases of the central nervous system; title: Intrauterine and perinatal infections; title: Viral infections in patients with defective immunity; title: Respiratory infections; title: Sexually transmitted viral infections; title: Resurgent and emergent viral infections; title: The laboratory diagnosis of viral infections; title: Control of viral diseases by immunization; title: Antiviral chemotherapy.