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Edited By
Brian Mahy, Coordinating Center for Infectious Diseases, CDC, Atlanta, GA, USA
Marc van Regenmortel, ESBS , CNRS , Strasbourg, France
Contents
Section 1. GENERAL TOPICS
History of virology : bacteriophages
History of virology : plant viruses
History
of virology : vertebrate viruses
Nature of viruses
Origin of viruses
Ribozymes
Virus species
Quasispecies
Virus databases
Phylogeny
of viruses
Evolution of viruses
Taxonomy, classification and nomenclature of viruses
Virus classification by pairwise sequence
comparison
Prions of vertebrates
Viruses and bioterrorism
Section 2. VIRIONS
Principles
of virion structure
Structure of non-enveloped virions
Electron microscopy of viruses
Cryo-electron microcopy
Assembly of
non-enveloped virions
Assembly of enveloped virions
Assembly of bacterial viruses
Genome packaging of bacterial viruses
Viral
membranes
Mimivirus
Section 3. NUCLEIC ACIDS
Recombination
Satellite nucleic acids and viruses
Retrotransposons
of vertebrates
Defective interfering viruses
Interfering RNAs
Viruses as vectors in gene therapy
Section
4. VIRUS INFECTION
Viral receptors
Virus entry to bacterial cells
Membrane fusion
Replication
of viruses
Persistent and latent viral infection
Apoptosis and virus infection
Viral pathogenesis
Antiviral agents
Diagnosis
using serological and molecular approaches
Diagnosis using microarrays
Disease surveillance
Section 5. IMMUNE RESPONSES
Innate
immunity
Defeating innate immunity
Antigen presentation
Antigenicity and immunogenicity of viral proteins
Cytokines
and chemokines
Cell-mediated immunity to viruses
Antibody - mediated immunity to viruses
Orthomyxovirus antigen structure
Antigenic
variation
Vaccine strategies
DNA Vaccines
Vaccine safety
Neutralization of infectivity
Immunopathology
Section
6. DESCRIPTION AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF SOME VIRUSES
Adenoviruses : molecular biology
Baculoviruses : molecular biology
of granuloviruses
Baculoviruses : molecular biology of nucleopolyhedroviruses
Coronaviruses : molecular biology
Hepatitis virus
B : molecular biology
Herpes simplex viruses : molecular biology
Human cytomegalovirus : molecular biology
Human immunodeficiency
viruses : molecular biology
Iridoviruses
Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus : molecular biology
Mononegavirales
Nidovirales
Nodaviruses
Orthomyxoviruses
: molecular biology
Papillomaviruses : molecular biology
Partitiviruses
Phycodnaviruses
Picornaviruses
Reoviruses
: molecular biology
Seadornaviruses
Tetraviruses
Togaviruses : molecular biology
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Hardbound, 600 pages, publication date: SEP-2009
ISBN-13: 978-0-12-375146-1
Imprint: ACADEMIC PRESS
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