Understanding viruses

Understanding viruses / Teri Shors, PhD, Professor, Department of Biology, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh.

"Understanding Viruses continues to set the standard for the fundamentals of virology. This classic textbook combines molecular, clinical, and historical aspects of human viral diseases in a new stunning interior design, featuring high-quality art that will engage readers. Preparing students fo...

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Main Author: Shors, Teri (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Burlington, Massachusetts : Jones & Bartlett Learning, [2017]
Edition:Third edition.
Subjects:
Virus diseases.
Viruses.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to viruses
  • Virus architecture and nomenclature
  • Eucaryotic molecular biology, cellular hurdles and how viruses hijack host cells
  • Mechanisms of viral entry and spread of infection in the body
  • Host resistance to viral infections
  • Epidemiology
  • Laboratory diagnosis of viral diseases and working with viruses in the research laboratory
  • Poliovirus and other enteroviruses
  • Influenza viruses
  • Hepatitis viruses
  • Herpesviruses
  • Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
  • Rabies
  • Poxviruses
  • New viruses and viruses that are reemerging
  • Viruses and cancer
  • The history of medicine, clinical trials, gene therapy, and xenotransplantation
  • What about prions and viroids?
  • Plant viruses
  • The best for last : bacteriophages.

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