Understanding viruses /
Shors, Teri,
Understanding viruses / Viruses Teri Shors, PhD, Professor, Department of Biology, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. - Third edition. - Burlington : Mass. Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2017. - xxiv, 944 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9781284025927 1284025926
Viruses
Virus Physiological Phenomena
Virus Diseases
616.91 / SHO
QW 160
Understanding viruses / Viruses Teri Shors, PhD, Professor, Department of Biology, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. - Third edition. - Burlington : Mass. Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2017. - xxiv, 944 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9781284025927 1284025926
Viruses
Virus Physiological Phenomena
Virus Diseases
616.91 / SHO
QW 160