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Emerging viruses /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1996.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Viruses and humankind: intracellular symbiosis and evolutionary competition / Joshua Lederberg
- Examining the origins of emerging viruses / Stephen S. Morse
- Viral emergence in historical context
- Patterns of disease emergence in history / William H. McNeill
- Influenza / Robert G. Webster
- Emerging viruses in context: an overview of viral hemorrhagic fevers / Karl M. Johnson
- Viruses and the host
- Ecology and evolution of host-virus associations / Robert M. May
- Pathogenesis of viral infections / Bernard N. Fields
- Virus and cell: determinants of tissue tropism / Thomas E. Shenk
- Seeing the unseen: methods for detecting viruses
- Virus detection systems / Douglas D. Richman
- New technologies for virus detection / David C. Ward
- Tracking emerging viruses
- Assessing geographic and transport factors, and recognition of new viruses / Robert E. Shope and Alfred S. Evans
- Phylogenetic moments in the AIDS epidemic / Gerald Myers, Kersti MacInnes and Lynda Myers.
- (cont) Ecological sources of emerging viruses
- Arthropod-borne viruses / Thomas P. Monath
- Hantaan (Korean Hemorrhagic Fever) and related rodent zoonoses / James W. LeDuc [and others]
- Filoviruses / C.J. Peters [and others]
- Interspecies transfer: case studies of animal viruses that recently crossed species
- Human monkeypox, a newly discovered human virus disease / Frank Fenner
- Seal plague virus / Brian W.J. Mahy
- Canine parvovirus 2: a probable example of interspecies transfer / Colin R. Parrish
- How viruses evolve: variation and evolution of RNA viruses
- Replication error, quasispecies populations, and extreme evolution rates of RNA viruses / John Holland
- High rate of retrovirus variation results in rapid evolution / Howard M. Temin
- Evolution of influenza and RNA viruses / Peter Palese
- Factors restraining emergence of new influenza viruses / Brian Murphy
- Recombination in the evolution of RNA viruses / James H. Strauss
- Evolutionary relationships of vectors and viruses / Bruce F. Eldridge.
- (cont) Prospects for the future
- Global change and epidemiology: nasty synergies / Thomas E. Lovejoy
- Are we prepared for a viral epidemic emergency? / Llewellyn J. Legters, Linda H. Brink and Ernest T. Takafuji
- Surveillance systems and intergovernmental cooperation / Donald A. Henderson
- Afterword: a personal summary presented as a guide for discussion / Edwin D. Kilbourne.