New Challenges to Health (eBook, PDF)

The Threat of Virus Infection
Redaktion: Smith, G. L.

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Produktbeschreibung

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 introduction is given to the mathematical analysis of recurrent epidemic virus disease, such as measles. Neurological and psychological disease is discussed in relation to the pathological mechanisms that may underlie prion disease (such as new variant CJD) and to the possible virus involvement in human psychiatric illness. Virus infections that have come to prominence recently (HIV, bunyaviruses, morbilliviruses and caliciviruses) or that remain a threat (influenza and hepatitis viruses) are discussed. There are also chapters on new and potential niches for virus infections in the immunocompromised, and the problem of the emergence of antiviral drug resistance in viruses for which therapies exist.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 2001
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511141171
• Artikelnr.: 38212573

Autorenporträt

Geoffrey Smith is a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow at the Wright-Fleming Institute, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; 1. The viruses in our past, the viruses in our future C. J.
Peters; 2. Dynamics and epidemiological impact of microparasites B. T.
Grenfell; 3. The continuing threat of bunyaviruses and hantaviruses R. M.
Elliott; 4. Calicivirus, myxoma virus and the wild rabbit in Australia: a
tale of three invasions B. J. Richardson; 5. Potential of influenza A
viruses to cause pandemics A. J. Hay; 6. The hepatitis viruses as emerging
agents of infectious diseases S. M. Lemon; 7. The emergence of human
immunodeficiency viruses and AIDS R. A. Weiss and H. A. Weiss; 8.
Morbilliviruses: dangers old and new T. Barrett; 9. Structure-function
analysis of prion protein C. Weissmann, D. Shmerling, D. Rossi, A. Cozzio,
I. Hegyi, M. Fischer, R. Leimeroth and E. Flechsig; 10. Endogenous
retroviruses and xenotransplantation J. P. Stoye; 11. Gammaherpesviral
infections and neoplasia in immunocompromised populations C. Boshoff; 12.
Structure and function of the proteins of Marburg and Ebola viruses H.-D.
Klenk, H. Feldmann, V. E. Volchkov, V. A. Volchkova and W. Weissenhorn; 13.
Epidemic dengue/dengue haemorrhagic fever as a public health problem 1st
century D. J. Gubler; 14. Borna disease virus - a threat for human mental
health? L. Bode and H. Ludwig; 15. Antiviral drug development and the
impact of drug resistance G. Darby; Index.