Infection by flaviviruses such as dengue virus serotypes (DENV 1-4), Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV), tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBE), yellow fever virus (YFV) and West Nile virus (WNV) impact millions of lives and cause tens of thousands of mortalities each year. Dengue i…
Neurovirology is an interdisciplinary field representing a melding of virology, clinical neuroscience, molecular pathogenesis, diagnostic virology, molecular biology, and immunology. Neuroviral Infections: RNA Viruses and Retroviruses presents an up-to-date overview of the gener…
Deanne Stephens Nuwer explores the social, political, racial, and economic consequences of the 1878 yellow fever epidemic in Mississippi. A mild winter, a long spring, and a torrid summer produced conditions favoring the Aedes aegypti and spread of fever. In late July New Orlean…
Genetic control of malaria and dengue
"This volume in the Handbook of Clinical Neurology series provides a complete review of the history, science and current state of neurovirology. It covers the science and clinical presentation, diagnosis, and treatment of viruses of the brain and central nervous system, and is a…
Neurovirology
by Booss, John, Tselis, Alexandros Constantine
fromHandbook of clinical neurology
"This volume in the Handbook of Clinical Neurology series provides a complete review of the history, science and current state of neurovirology. It covers the science and clinical presentation, diagnosis, and treatment of viruses of the brain and central nervous system, and is a…
Neurovirology
by Booss, John, Tselis, Alexandros Constantine
fromHandbook of clinical neurology
"This volume in the Handbook of Clinical Neurology series provides a complete review of the history, science and current state of neurovirology. It covers the science and clinical presentation, diagnosis, and treatment of viruses of the brain and central nervous system, and is a…
Neurovirology
by Booss, John, Tselis, Alexandros Constantine
fromHandbook of clinical neurology
This volume in the Handbook of Clinical Neurology series provides a complete review of the history, science and current state of neurovirology. It covers the science and clinical presentation, diagnosis, and treatment of viruses of the brain and central nervous system, and is a …
"The AIDS epidemic has posed more urgent historical questions than any other disease of modern times. How have societies responded to epidemics in the past? Why did the disease emerge when and where it did? How has it spread among members of particular groups? And how will the p…
TB/HIV: a Clinical Manual
by Maher, Dermot, Graham, Stephen M., Harries, Anthony D., Gilks, Charles, Nunn, Paul
Developments since 1996, particularly in the TB/HIV field, have now prompted a second edition of this popular manual which provides a pocket-sized guide to the clinical management of TB, particularly in patients suffering from co-infection with HIV. Designed for use by busy clin…
Reports of influenza-like illnesses date back to the Middle Ages, and outbreaks of influenza likely afflicted humans long before that. Over the last half century, influenza virus research has led to the development of two classes of antivirals - ion channel and neuraminidase inh…
A witch's curse, an imperialist conspiracy, a racist plot-HIV/AIDS is a catastrophic health crisis with complex cultural dimensions. From small villages to the international system, explanations of where it comes from, who gets it, and who dies are tied to political agendas, rel…
HIV protocols
by Prasad, Vinayaka R., Prasad, Vinayaka R., Kalpana, Ganjam V.
fromMethods in molecular biology
Despite major advances in the treatment of HIV, there are still many areas requiring additional study. These areas include ways to create efficacious, potent antiretrovirals for suppressing viral loads completely without toxic side effects, the definition of unknown drug targets…
Clinical neurovirology
"This second edition includes the basic science, clinical features, imaging, pathology and treatment of specific viral entities affecting the CNS. It will assist professionals in their attempt to identify, examine and manage viral CNS infections and unravel the therapeutic and d…
Clinical neurovirology
Introduction to Virus Structure, Classification, Replication, and Hosts / Philippe Simon and Kevin M. Coombs -- Neuropathogenesis Of Viral Infections / Avindra Nath, Joseph R. Berger -- An Approach to Pathogen Discovery for Viral Infections of the Nervous System / Prashanth S. R…