Measles Pathogenesis and Control /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Griffin, Diane E. (Editor), Oldstone, Michael B. A. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, 330
• Subjects: Medicine.; Vaccines.; Virology.; Infectious diseases.; Biomedicine.; Infectious Diseases.; Vaccine.

Measles virus, one of the most contagious of all human viruses, has been largely contained by the development and use of a vaccine that was introduced 50 years ago. These two volumes were timed to honor the introduction of the vaccine and to record the enormous advancements made in understanding the...

Table of Contents:

• Making It to the Synapse: Measles Virus Spread in and Among Neurons
• Modeling Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis in a Transgenic Mouse System: Uncoding Pathogenesis of Disease and Illuminating Components of Immune Control
• Measles Studies in the Macaque Model
• Ferrets as a Model for Morbillivirus Pathogenesis, Complications, and Vaccines
• Current Animal Models: Cotton Rat Animal Model
• Current Animal Models: Transgenic Animal Models for the Study of Measles Pathogenesis
• Molecular Epidemiology of Measles Virus
• Human Immunology of Measles Virus Infection
• Measles Control and the Prospect of Eradication
• Measles: Old Vaccines, New Vaccines
• Measles Virus for Cancer Therapy
• Measles Virus-Induced Immunosuppression
• Hostile Communication of Measles Virus with Host Innate Immunity and Dendritic Cells.