Emerging viruses

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Publication Date

Varies, see individual formats and editions

Language

English

Description

Loading Description...

Published Reviews

From the Book

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

(cont) 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 ... [et al.]

Filoviruses / C.J. Peters ... [et al.]

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.

(cont) Recommbination in the evolution of RNA viruses / Jammes 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.

From the eBook