Emerging viruses
By: edited by Stephen S. Morse.
Contributors: Morse, Stephen S.
Publisher: Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
Subjects: Virus diseases -- Epidemiology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Viruses and humankind: intracellular symbiosis and evolutionary competition / Joshua Lederberg; title: Examining the origins of emerging viruses / Stephen S. Morse; title: Viral emergence in historical context; title: Patterns of disease emergence in history / William H. McNeill; title: Influenza / Robert G. Webster; title: Emerging viruses in context: an overview of viral hemorrhagic fevers / Karl M. Johnson; title: Viruses and the host; title: Ecology and evolution of host-virus associations / Robert M. May; title: Pathogenesis of viral infections / Bernard N. Fields; title: Virus and cell: determinants of tissue tropism / Thomas E. Shenk; title: Seeing the unseen: methods for detecting viruses; title: Virus detection systems / Douglas D. Richman; title: New technologies for virus detection / David C. Ward; title: Tracking emerging viruses; title: Assessing geographic and transport factors, and recognition of new viruses / Robert E. Shope and Alfred S. Evans; title: Phylogenetic moments in the AIDS epidemic / Gerald Myers, Kersti MacInnes and Lynda Myers.; title: (cont) Ecological sources of emerging viruses; title: Arthropod-borne viruses / Thomas P. Monath; title: Hantaan (Korean Hemorrhagic Fever) and related rodent zoonoses / James W. LeDuc ... [et al.]; title: Filoviruses / C.J. Peters ... [et al.]; title: Interspecies transfer: case studies of animal viruses that recently crossed species; title: Human monkeypox, a newly discovered human virus disease / Frank Fenner; title: Seal plague virus / Brian W.J. Mahy; title: Canine parvovirus 2: a probable example of interspecies transfer / Colin R. Parrish; title: How viruses evolve: variation and evolution of RNA viruses; title: Replication error, quasispecies populations, and extreme evolution rates of RNA viruses / John Holland; title: High rate of retrovirus variation results in rapid evolution / Howard M. Temin; title: Evolution of influenza and RNA viruses / Peter Palese; title: Factors restraining emergence of new influenza viruses / Brian Murphy; title: Recombination in the evolution of RNA viruses / James H. Strauss; title: Evolutionary relationships of vectors and viruses / Bruce F. Eldridge.; title: (cont) Prospects for the future; title: Global change and epidemiology: nasty synergies / Thomas E. Lovejoy; title: Are we prepared for a viral epidemic emergency? / Llewellyn J. Legters, Linda H. Brink and Ernest T. Takafuji; title: Surveillance systems and intergovernmental cooperation / Donald A. Henderson; title: Afterword: a personal summary presented as a guide for discussion / Edwin D. Kilbourne.