Research Catalog

Title

Slow, latent, and temperate virus infections. Edited by D. Carleton Gajdusek, Clarence J. Gibbs, Jr. [and] Michael Alpers.

Author

Workshop and Symposium on Slow, Latent, and Temperate Virus Infections, National Institutes of Health, 1964.

Publication

[Washington] U.S. National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness; [for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.] 1965.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Gajdusek, D. Carleton (Daniel Carleton), 1923-2008
• Gibbs, Clarence J., 1924-
• Alpers, Michael P.
• National Institutes of Health (U.S.)

Description

xx, 489 pages illustrations (some color); 27 cm

Series Statement

• NINDB monograph no. 2
• Public health service publication no. 1378
• United States. National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness. Monograph ; no. 2.

Uniform Title

Public Health Service publication ; no. 1374.

Subject

• Viruses
• Virus diseases
• Slow virus diseases
• Latent virus diseases
• Nervous System Diseases > etiology
• Virus Diseases
• Viruses
• Virus Latency
• Slow Virus Diseases

Genre/Form

• Congress
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Actes de congrès.

Note

• Held Dec. 7-9, 1964; sponsored by the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies.

Contents

Human nervous system disease of suspected viral etiology / Chairman, Hilary Koprowski -- Kuru in New Guinea and the origin of the NINDB Study of Slow, Latent, and Temperate Virus Infections of the Nervous System in Man / D. Carleton Gajdusek -- Attempt to demonstrate a transmissible agent in Kuru Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, and other subacute and chronic progressive nervous system degenerations of man / Clarence J. Gibbs, Jr., and D. Carleton Gajdusek -- Transmission experiments with multiple sclerosis / P.A. Pálsson, I.H. Pattison and E.J. Field -- Epidemiological changes in Kuru, 1957 to 1963 / Michael Alpers -- Kuru and scrapie compared: are they examples of system degeneration? / Elisabeth Beck and P.M. Daniel -- Slow and latent virus infections of man / Chairman, E.J. Field -- The incubation period of viral encephalitis / Richard T. Johnson -- Pathogenesis of infection with herpes simplex virus with special reference to nervous tissue / Sidney Kibrick and Gretchen Gooding -- Serological, immunological and hypersensitivity reactions in subacute and chronic disorders of the central nervous system of animals and man / Chairman, F. Bang -- The virology, pathology and epizootiology of scrapie / Chairman, I.H. Pattison -- Viral characteristics of the scrapie agent in mice / Clarence J. Gibbs, Jr., D. Carleton Gajdusek and J. Anthony Morris -- Observations on the agent of scrapie / D.A. Haig and M.C. Clarke -- Observations on the experimental transmission of scrapie of various origins to laboratory animals / I. Zlotnik -- Experiments with scrapie with special reference to the nature of the agent and the pathology of the disease / I.H. Pattison -- The virology, pathology and epizootiology of Aleutian disease in mink / Chairman, J. Hotchin -- Some observations on the natural occurrence of Aleutian disease / John R. Gorham [and others] -- Transmissible encephalopathy of mink / D. Burger and G.R. Hartsough -- Virology of visna and other slow and latent virus infections / Chairman, K. Habel -- Genetics in the pathogenesis of subacute and chronic virus infections / Chairman, K. Habel -- Bibliographies -- A note on cinema of slow virus infections -- Index of names -- Subject index.

LCCN

66060991

OCLC

• ocm00051941
• 51941
• SCSB-182247

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library