Fields Virology: Emerging Viruses
Description
This volume of Fields Virology: Emerging Viruses, Seventh Edition covers recent changes in emerging viruses, providing new or extensively revised chapters that reflect these advances in this dynamic field.
This text serves as the authoritative, up-to-date reference book for virologists, infectious disease specialists, microbiologists, and physicians, as well as medical students pursuing a career in infectious diseases.
- Covers both basic science and medical features of each virus, emphasizing viruses of medical importance and interest, while also including other viruses in specific cases where more is known about their mechanisms of replication or pathogenesis.
- Covers virus evolution, as well as Coronoviridae, Picornaviridae, Enteroviruses, Caliciviridae, Hepatitis C Virus, Filoviridae, Henipaviruses, Orthomyxoviruses, Bunyavirales, Arenaviridae, and much more.
- Features over 500 full-color illustrations, including key figures for use as lecture slides.
- Provides quick, flexible access to current information both in print and in an improved eBook format, searchable across all volumes.
- Discusses virus structure, virus entry, replication, and assembly, virus-host cell interactions, host immune responses and vaccines, antiviral therapeutics, virus evolution and immunization.
Publication Year: 2020
Authors/Editor:
Howley, Peter M.; Knipe, David M.; Whelan, Sean
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW)
ISBN: 978-1-97-511254-7
Platform:
Ovid
Product Type: Book
Specialty:
Immunology
Infectious Diseases
Internal Medicine
Microbiology
Virology
Language: English
Pages: 1256
Illustrations: 679
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