Viruses and Man: A History of Interactions

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Taylor, Milton W. (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Immunology.; Medical microbiology.; Virology.; Biomedicine.; Medical Microbiology.

Milton Taylor, Indiana University, offers an easy-to-read and fascinating text describing the impact of viruses on human society. The book starts with an analysis of the profound effect that viral epidemics had on world history resulting in demographic upheavals by destroying total populations. It a...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• A Short History of Virology
• What is a Virus?- A History of Cell Culture
• Discovery of Bacteriophage
• Beginnings of Molecular Biology
• History of Immunology
• Interferons
• Cancer and Viruses
• Smallpox
• Yellow Fever
• Influenza
• Poliovirus and Other Picornaviruses
• Hepatitis
• Herpes Viruses
• HIV and AIDS
• Phage Therapy and the Future
• Viral Oncolysis or Virotherapy
• Gene Therapy and Viral Vectors
• Vaccine Against Virus Infections
• Emerging Viruses
• Manufacturing Viruses
• Viruses as Biological Weapons.