Viruses and Man: A History of Interactions

• Main Author: Taylor, Milton W. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: 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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.