Research Catalog
Understanding viruses
- Title
- Understanding viruses / Teri Shors.
- Author
- Shors, Teri.
- Publication
- Sudbury, Mass. : Jones and Bartlett Publishers, ©2009.
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Details
- Description
- xxiv, 639 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color); 28 cm
- Summary
- "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."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction to viruses -- Eukaryotic molecular biology and host cell constraints -- Virus replication cycles -- Virus architecture and nomenclature -- Laboratory diagnosis of viral diseases -- Mechanisms of viral entry and spread of infection in the body -- Host resistance to viral infections -- Epidemiology -- The history of medicine, clinical trials, gene therapy, and xenotransplantation -- Viruses and cancer -- Poliovirus and other enteroviruses -- Influenza viruses -- Rabies -- Poxviruses -- Herpesviruses -- Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) -- Hepatitis viruses -- New viruses and viruses that are reemerging -- What about prions and viroids? -- Plant viruses -- The best for last: bacteriophages.
- ISBN
- 9780763729325
- 0763729329
- LCCN
- 2007019380
- OCLC
- ocn124505697
- 124505697
- SCSB-9753681
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library