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Teri Shors
ISBN: 9780763729325
Format: Hardback
Publisher:Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc
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Combining the molecular, clinical, and historical aspects of virology, Understanding Viruses is a textbook for the modern undergraduate virology course. The text provides an introduction to human viral diseases. Additional chapters on viral diseases of animals; the history of clinical trials, gene therapy, and xenotransplantation; prions and viroids; plant viruses; and bacteriophages add to the coverage.
Understanding Viruses is the ideal text for the modern undergraduate virology course. Each chapter contains pathobiology, molecular biology, history, epidemiology, and current issues as it pertains to a specific viral disease all arranged together for easy study.
| ISBN | 0763729329 | | Pages | 639 | | ISBN13 | 9780763729325
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc | | Weight (grammes) | 1285 | | Imprint | Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc | | Published in | Sudbury | | Format | Hardback | | Height (mm) | 277 | | Publication date | 14 Mar 2008 | | Width (mm) | 216 | | Library of Congress | 2007019380 | | Spine width (mm) | 23 | | DEWEY | 579.2 | | Academic level | Further/Higher education | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | |
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| 1 | | Introduction to Viruses | | 2 | | 2 | | Eukaryotic Molecular Biology and Host Cell Constraints | | 31 | | 3 | | Virus Replication Cycles | | 46 | | 4 | | Virus Architecture and Nomenclature | | 70 | | 5 | | Laboratory Diagnosis of Viral Diseases | | 86 | | 6 | | Mechanisms of Viral Entry and Spread of Infection in the Body | | 114 | | 7 | | Host Resistance to Viral Infections | | 140 | | 8 | | Epidemiology | | 190 | | 9 | | The History of Medicine, Clinical Trials, Gene Therapy, and Xenotransplantation | | 220 | | 10 | | Viruses and Cancer | | 242 | | 11 | | Poliovirus and Other Enteroviruses | | 280 | | 12 | | Influenza Viruses | | 304 | | 13 | | Rabies | | 350 | | 14 | | Poxviruses | | 376 | | 15 | | Herpesviruses | | 408 | | 16 | | Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) | | 436 | | 17 | | Hepatitis Viruses | | 474 | | 18 | | New Viruses and Viruses That Are Reemerging | | 508 | | 19 | | What About Prions and Viroids? | | 538 | | 20 | | Plant Viruses | | 562 | | 21 | | The Best for Last: Bacteriophages | | 588 | | | | Glossary | | 605 | | | | Index | | 622 |
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