Understanding viruses

by Shors, Teri

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Title Statements

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

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2017
Edition:Third edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Jones & Bartlett Learning
Place of Publication:Burlington, Massachusetts
Language:eng
Publication Date:2017

The Physical Object

Description:xxiv, 944 pages : : color illustrations ; : 28 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781284025927, 1284025926, 9781284057898, 1284057895
oclc:on1023127743
LC Classification:RC114.5
Dewey Decimal:616.9/1

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.