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New Challenges to Health : the Threat of Virus Infection.
Viruses continually evolve and adapt, posing new threats to health. This book discusses the ecology of viruses with particular emphasis on the emergence of devastating haemorrhagic disease, and reviews the molecular and cell biological basis of the pathogenesis of several virus diseases. An introduc...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2001.
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| Colección: | Symposium of the Society for General Microbiology.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; CONTRIBUTORS; EDITORS' PREFACE; The viruses in our past, the viruses in our future; THE PREMISE; HISTORY OF THE CONTINENTS; HISTORIC CHANGES IN HUMAN ECOLOGY AND PATTERNS OF INFECTION; THE YELLOW FEVER EXAMPLE; SOME LESSONS FROM TODAY; Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS); Ebola virus; Rift Valley fever (RVF); Nipah; WHAT SHOULD WE EXPECT IN THE FUTURE?; WHAT CAN THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY DO?; Research; Public health; Vaccines; IN CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES; Dynamics and epidemiological impact of microparasites; INTRODUCTION.
- POPULATION DYNAMICS OF CHILDHOOD INFECTIONS
- OBSERVED PATTERNSThe data; THE SEIR MODEL FOR CHILDHOOD DISEASE DYNAMICS; MODELLING OBSERVED EPIDEMIC PATTERNS AND DYNAMICAL TRANSITIONS; Recurrent epidemics; Impact of birth rate variations and vaccination; Stochasticity, space and synchrony; COMPARATIVE IMPACT AND DYNAMICS OF MICROPARASITES; CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES; The continuing threat of bunyaviruses and hantaviruses; INTRODUCTION; GENOME CODING AND REPLICATION STRATEGIES; EVOLUTIONARY POTENTIAL OF BUNYAVIRUSES AND HANTAVIRUSES; BIOLOGY OF BUNYAVIRUSES AND HANTAVIRUSES.
- BUNYAVIRUS AND HANTAVIRUS DISEASEBUNYAVIRUS NON-STRUCTURAL PROTEINS; CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES; Calicivirus, myxoma virus and the wild rabbit in Australia: a tale of three invasions; INTRODUCTION; THE RABBIT; Invasion; Evolution of the invader; Lessons; THE MYXOMA VIRUS; Invasion; Evolution of the invader; Lessons; CALICIVIRUS; Invasion; Evolution of virus and host; Lessons; SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES IN THE THREE INVASIONS; REFERENCES; Potential of influenza A viruses to cause pandemics; INTRODUCTION; INFLUENZA VIRUSES; HOST RANGE RESTRICTION; PATHOGENICITY.
- AVIAN-TO-MAMMALIAN TRANSMISSIONSURVEILLANCE; REFERENCES; The hepatitis viruses as emerging agents of infectious diseases; INTRODUCTION; THE FIVE VIRAL AGENTS OF HEPATITIS; THE DISEASE BURDEN ASSOCIATED WITH HEPATITIS VIRUS INFECTION; THE HEPATITIS VIRUSES AS EMERGING AGENTS OF INFECTION; HEPATITIS A VIRUS; Virology; The changing threat of hepatitis A; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; Molecular virology; Natural history and the host immune response; The emerging issue of natural and drug-selected HBV mutants; HEPATITIS D VIRUS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; Molecular virology.
- Natural history and disease pathogenesisHepatitis C as an emerging infection; Prospects for an HCV vaccine; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; The emergence of human immunodeficiency viruses and AIDS; INTRODUCTION; THE VIRUSES; ORIGINS AND DIVERSITY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HIV PATHOGENESIS; Disease parameters; HIV dynamics and progression; Cellular tropism and disease; CONTROLLING HIV INFECTION; Anti-retroviral therapy; HIV vaccine development; Public health control and prevention; CONCLUSIONS AND PROSPECTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES; Morbilliviruses: dangers old and new; INTRODUCTION; HISTORY; CONTROL.