Bunyaviridae

Herausgegeben von Kolakofsky, Daniel

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Bunyaviridae represent an extremely diverse family of viruses,whichuntilrecentlywererelativelypoorlyunderstood. These viruses have become increasingly important in both human and veterinary medicine, and, most recently, bunyaviruses have been recognized as plant pathogens as well. This book attemptsto treat all aspectsof their biology, including their natural history, genetics, virion structure, unusual pathway of intracellular assembly, gene structure and the mechanisms of its expression, antigenicity, and pathogenesis, inasinglevolume. Assuch,itfillsavoid inthe virologyliterature.Thisvolumeisalsotimely,asthemolecular descriptionofthisfamilyisnowalmostcomplete. Thereader can expect to find the present state of the art on how bunyavirusesaremaintainedinnature,andhowtheyreplicate and sometimescausedisease. Iwould like tothank myco-contributorsfor the time and efforttheyhaveinvestedtomaketheirchaptersascompleteas possible,and notleastofall,for byand largerespectingthe deadline.Iam alsogratefulto DickCompansforsuggesting this volume and helping to design its contents, and for the manydiscussionsduring hisstayin Geneva. DANIEL KOLAKOFSKY ListofContents C. R. PRINGLE:TheBunyaviridaeandTheirGenetics An Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B.J. BEATYand C. H. CALISHER:Bunyaviridae- Natural History. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 M.J. HEWLETTand W. CHIU:Virion Structure . . 79 R. M. ELLIOTT, C. S. SCHMALJOHN.and M. S. COLLETT: BunyaviridaeGenomeStructureandGeneExpression 91 D. KOLAKOFSKYand D. HACKER: BunyavirusRNA Synthesis: GenomeTranscriptionand Replication. 143 Y. MATSUOKA, S. Y. CHEN,and R. W. COMPANS: BunyavirusProteinTransportandAssembly. 161 L. KINGSFORD:AntigenicVariance. . . . . . . . 181 F.GONZALEZ-SCARANO,M. J. ENDRES.and N. NATHANSON: Pathogenesis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... 217 ListofContributors BEATY, B. J.... 27 HACKER. D.... 143 CALISHER, C. H.. 27 HEWLETT, M. J. 79 CHEN, S.Y . 161 KINGSFORD, L.. 181 CHIU,w. . 79 KOLAKOFSKY D.. 143 COLLETT, M.S. . 91 MATSUOKA, Y.. 161 COMPANS, R. W.. 161 NATHANSON, N.. 217 ELLIOTT, R. M.. . 91 PRINGLE, C. R.. . 1 ENDRES. M. J. . . 217 SCHMALJOHN. C.S.. 91 GONZALEZ-SCARANO, F.

Produktdetails

• Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology .169
• Verlag: Springer / Springer Berlin Heidelberg / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-642-76020-4
• Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1991
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 417g
• ISBN-13: 9783642760204
• ISBN-10: 3642760201
• Artikelnr.: 36116533

Autorenporträt

There has been no literature up to now treating the Bunyaviridae in general as a family. The book demonstrates how they are maintained in nature and how they replicate and sometimes cause disease.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contents.- The Bunyaviridae and Their Genetics-An Overview.- Bunyaviridae-Natural History.- Virion Structure.- Bunyaviridae Genome Structure and Gene Expression.- Bunyavirus RNA Synthesis: Genome Transcription and Replication.- Bunyavirus Protein Transport and Assembly.- Antigenic Variance.- Pathogenesis.