عنوان

Human virology :

0198566603

9780198566601

b754204

Human virology :

[Book]

a text for students of medicine, dentistry, and microbiology /

Leslie Collier and John Oxford ; with illustrations by Jim Pipkin.

3rd ed.

New York :

Oxford University Press,

2006.

xviii, 303 pages :

illustrations (some color) ;

28 cm

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

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The authors' intent is not to turn their readers into virologists but rather to provide them with enough knowledge of the nature of viruses and virus infections to serve as an essential background for later involvement with the subject. The new edition has been extensively updated, with many new diagrams included. New material has been added on: DT Plant and bacterial viruses DT Coronaviruses, focusing on SARS DT Monkeypox infections in humans and the possible use of smallpox as a biological weapon DT Latest advances on chemotherapy of herpesviruses DT Updated material on Prion diseases, focusing on new variant CJD. DT New material on the debate between MMR versus single vaccine.

Human virology.

Human virology.

Medical virology.

Virus diseases.

Virology-- methods.

Virus Diseases-- microbiology.

Virus Replication.

Viruses-- pathogenicity.

Maladies à virus.

Virologie médicale.

Medical virology.

Virologie

Virus diseases.

Collier, L. H., (Leslie Harold),1921-2011.

Oxford, J. S., (John Sidney)

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