Research Catalog

Title

Microorganisms and bioterrorism / edited by Burt Anderson, Herman Friedman and Mauro Bendinelli.

Publication

New York : Springer, 2006.

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Details

Description

xx, 240 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Infectious agents and pathogenesis

Uniform Title

Infectious agents and pathogenesis.

Subjects

• Bioterrorism
• Microorganisms
• Plague > physiopathology
• Smallpox > physiopathology
• Brucella > pathogenicity
• Bacillus anthracis > pathogenicity
• Tularemia > physiopathology
• Rickettsia rickettsii > pathogenicity
• Q Fever > physiopathology
• Public Health
• Coxiella burnetii > pathogenicity

Contents

1. Biotechnology and the public health response to bioterrorism / Andrew Cannons, Philip Amuso and Burt Anderson -- 2. Historical perspectives of microbial bioterrorism / Stephen A. Morse -- 3. The infectious disease physician and microbial bioterrorism / Sandra G. Gompf, Jordan Lewis, Eknath Naik and Kaley Tash -- 4. Modulation of innate immunity to protect against biological weapon threat / Ken Alibek and Catherine Lobanova -- 5. Smallpox : pathogenesis and host immune response relevant to vaccine and therapeutic strategies / Michele A. Kutzler, Kenneth E. Ugen and David B. Weiner -- 6. Bacillus anthracis : agent of bioterror and disease / Christopher K. Cote, Donald J. Chabot, Angelo Scorpio, Thomas E. Blank, William A. Day, Susan L. Welkos and Joel A. Bozue -- 7. Tularemia pathogenesis and immunity / Stephen L. Michell, Kate F. Griffin and Richard W. Titball -- 8. Brucella and bioterrorism / Michelle Wright Valderas and R. Martin Roop II -- 9. Pneumonic plague / David L. Erickson and B. Joseph Hinnebusch -- 10. Coxiella burnetii, Q fever, and bioterrorism / J. D. Miller, E. I. Shaw and H. A. Thompson -- 11. Genomic and proteomic approaches against Q fever / James E. Samuel, Laura R. Hendrix, Kasi Russell and Guoquan Zhang -- 12. Rickettsia rickettsii and other members of the spotted fever group as potential bioweapons / Donald H. Bouyer and David H. Walker.

ISBN

0387281568 (hd.bd.)

OCLC

• ocm64399510
• SCSB-5229296

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries