Microorganisms and Bioterrorism

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Anderson, Burt (Editor), Friedman, Herman (Editor), Bendinelli, Mauro (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2006.
• Series: Infectious Agents and Pathogenesis,
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Immunology.; Neurosciences.; Virology.; Infectious diseases.; Cell biology.; Microbiology.; Life Sciences.; Infectious Diseases.; Cell Biology.

Table of Contents:

• Biotechnology and the Public Health Response to Bioterrorism
• Historical Perspectives of Microbial Bioterrorism
• The Infectious Disease Physician and Microbial Bioterrorism
• Modulation of Innate Immunity to Protect Against Biological Weapon Threat
• Smallpox: Pathogenesis and Host Immune Responses Relevant to Vaccine and Therapeutic Strategies
• Bacillus anthracis: Agent of Bioterror and Disease
• Tularemia Pathogenesis and Immunity
• Brucella and Bioterrorism
• Pneumonic Plague
• Coxiella burnetii, Q Fever, and Bioterrorism
• Genomic and Proteomic Approaches Against Q Fever
• Rickettsia rickettsii and Other Members of the Spotted Fever Group as Potential Bioweapons.