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Books : Professional & Technical : Medical : Basic Sciences : Virology
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With the vast developments in the virology field in the past three decades it is a challenge to keep abreast of new developments. While the specialist literature has grown at a rapid pace, books for students have not kept pace. As a result, the field has lacked a modern primer for some time. Basic Virology is for instructors everywhere who need an engaging and concise introduction to this challenging subject.For students, Basic Virology provides an accessible synthesis to those who need to master the fundamentals of virology. The basic concepts of molecular biology and immunology are carefully addressed and molecular detail increases as the book progresses. This unique organization will lend itself to many syllabi.
- Strong pedagogy makes this complex subject more comprehensible.
- Combined presentation of viral families and viral functions satisfies the needs of instructors with either approach.
- Reinforcement material - students will quickly achieve understanding of basic skills in molecular biology, and rudimentary aspects of immunology, pathology & disease.
- Strong pedagogy makes this complex subject more comprehensible.
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An acclaimed science writer takes readers behind the scenes at the Centers for Disease Control to tell the story of an engrossing odyssey across the viral frontier.
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Medical Virology first appeared in 1970 and was immediately hailed as a classic. The Fourth Edition has been completely updated, substantially rewritten, and considerably expanded. Acknowledging that today's students possess a more sophisticated background of molecular and cellular biology, the book is pitched a little higher than was the third edition. Nevertheless, it maintains the exceptionally high standards of the three previous editions, including the now famous user-friendly style. Hundreds of instructive diagrams and succinct tables smooth the path for the reader. Extensive lists of recent authoritative reviews at the end of each of the 36 chapters simplifies the reader's entry into the scientific literature. Throughout, the focus is on fundamental principles, mechanisms and basic facts, rather than on overwhelming detail.
Part I of the book, expanded to over 400 pages, comprises in effect a self-contained overview of the Principles of Virology. Part II, entitled Viruses of Humans, deals comprehensively with all the families of human viruses. Extensive coverage is given to the molecular biology of the viruses and of viral replication, pathogenesis and immunity, clinical features of all important diseases caused by all viruses affecting humans, the latest laboratory diagnostic methods, epidemiology and control, including chemotherapy and vaccines.
This lucid an
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Viruses: Biology, Application, and Control is a concise textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate students covering the essential aspects of virology included in biomedical science courses. It is an updated and expanded version of David Harper’s Molecular Virology, Second Edition. Focusing on key mechanisms and developments, Viruses presents many new recent scientific advances, including virus evolution, emerging infections, virus extinction, control of infections, antiviral drugs, gene therapy, bacteriophage therapy, and diagnostics.
The first chapters introduce the reader to the structure and nature of viruses, including their classification and evolution. As viruses cause widespread and serious disease, the ensuing chapters explain how they interact with the immune system and the different ways we try to defeat them: vaccines, antiviral drugs, and immunotherapy. Laboratory methods for viral detection and laboratory diagnosis are also covered. While viruses do cause disease, many do not, and their special biology means they can have beneficial uses, and this aspect of viruses is emphasized. One of the most interesting areas in virology, given extensive coverage here, is how new viruses emerge and establish themselves.
Viruses: Biology, Application, and Control is a rigorous treatment of the molecular side of virology and its conceptual approach makes it an essential text for students and non-specialists.
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This is the first comprehensive treatise on the rapidly developing field of papillomaviruses. In the last few years, these viruses have attracted particular interest because of their role in human cancer of the skin and the genital tract. The book summarizes the present knowledge about the viral components and their interactions with target cells leading to benign and malignant proliferations. Several chapters deal with epidemiology, pathology and biological behaviour of papillomavirus-associated lesions of the skin, the oral mucosa, the respiratory or anogenital tract. The role of papillomaviruses in the malignant conversion of primarily benign human or animal proliferations and the immune-response of the host to the viral infections are discussed. Cell culture systems as a tool to understanding the biology of papillomaviruses are described and the increasing knowledge about molecular state and expression of the genomes in tumor cells is presented. In view of the growing importance of clinical aspects, individual chapters on the diagnosis of viral infections and on the treatment of the lesions have been included. Extensive, yet concise reviews, up-to-the-minute data and useful bibliography make this book the most accessible and informative source on papillomaviruses available.
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Established for 20 years as the definitive virology reference, the two-volume classic Fields Virology is in its thoroughly revised, updated Fifth Edition. More than 100 world-renowned investigators provide encyclopedic coverage of every aspect of contemporary virology, including the pathogenesis of viral diseases and the molecular biology, replication, and clinical significance of all known virus families.
This edition has many new international contributing authors and a greater emphasis on clinical relevance. Coverage includes new material on viruses and biodefense, emerging and re-emerging viruses, the human virome, mononegavirales, and henipaviruses. This edition also has a new two-color design and a revised art program unifying replication and virions images.
A new bound-in CD-ROM contains a viral image bank.
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This second edition of a well received textbook includes major revisions in certain chapters. There is also further discussion on clinically important conditions, and some of the more esoteric section on microbiology have been printed in italics so that the book can be read either at a general level, by reading the italicised material, or as a more advanced text. The bright, bold format, from the first edition has been kept, but has been given a more sophisticated and up-to-date look. Richly illustrated with around 130 line drawings and photographs, Human Virology provides a complete review of this rapidly expanding field of biology for medical, dental and microbiology students. Leslie Collier is as freelance medical editor and writer and was formerly Professor of Virology at the Royal London Hospital. John Oxford is the current holder of this position. Reviews of the first edition 'Collier and Oxford are to be congratulated on producing a textbook for undergraduates which is refreshing in its ability to make the subject interesting and clinically relevant in a format that is both easy and enjoyable to read.' British Journal of Hospital Medicine 'excellent student text which combines scholarship with easy to remember diagrams and memory aides.' Aslib Book Guide 'The book is very well illustrated and the only adjective for the many electronmicrographs is "superb".' J Med Microbiol 'It is
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The renowned AIDS researcher Robert Gallo tells his story of scientific breakthrough in a riveting portrait of the people, the politics, and the pace of modern scientific discovery.
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This unique book focuses on the DNA viruses in the human population that are associated with cancers. It covers most of the viruses that are thought to contribute to human malignancy. This book represents a comprehensive review of the field of DNA tumor virology. Right now, while there are books out there that cover individual viruses that are also covered in this book, there is no single book that covers this topic comprehensively. This book is the first current, comprehensive review of its kind in the market.
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Designed for graduate students and researchers in all biological and biomedical sciences, this volume brings together the basic science chapters from the two-volume Fourth Edition of Fields Virology. These 37 chapters comprise a comprehensive text and reference on the concepts and research techniques of contemporary virology and the biochemistry, molecular biology, and replication of all viruses. The first part of the book covers basic concepts of general virology and the second part focuses on specific virus families.
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This volume reports on a meeting, co-sponsored by the American Society for Microbiology and the Vietnam Association for Microbiology, which provided a common platform for Vietnamese scientists and ASM international members to discuss emerging viral infectious diseases with special emphasis on the Asia-Pacific region.NOTE: Annals volumes are available for sale as individual books or as a journal. For information on institutional journal subscriptions, please visit www.blackwellpublishing.com/nyas.
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This is a short well established textbook of medical virology. It also includes sections on chlamydia, richettsia and mycoplasma. The subject is largely presented in terms of presenting disease, discussing epidemiology, diagnosis, clinical features, complications and vaccines. The text is illustrated throughout with colour clinical photographs. The emphasis of the whole book is on information relevant to clinical practice.
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This volume has gathered some of the experts in the field to review aspects of our understanding of CMV and to offer perspectives of the current problems associated with CMV. The editors and authors hope that the chapters will lead to a better understanding of the virus that will assist in the development of new and unique antivirals, a protective vaccine, and a full understanding of CMV's involvement in human disease.
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This is a handbook for recognition and characterization of virus-induced cellular changes seen by light microscopy as well as virus morphology as shown by electron microscopy. The book is divided into six parts consisting of 30 chapters, and is richly illustrated. It is the fourth edition of a vital handbook for use in clinical (eg hospital) laboratories, and was first published over 30 years ago. It has been updated and new features of this edition include an added chapter on the human retrovirus, and an expansion of the chapters on the arborviruses and hepatitis viruses.
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This text provides an explanation of the basic and medical aspects of virology in a comprehensive format. It is comprised of selected chapters from the third edition of "Fields Virology" (ISBN 0-7817-0253-4) that have specific relevance for all medical and graduate students, as well as researchers in infectious disease and other clinical scientists. The book is divided into two major sections: the first addresses general principles such as virus taxonomy, analysis of viral membranes, defective genomes and pathogenesis of viral infection; the second section details specific virus families and their replication and provides critical updates on specific virus families.