Poxviruses

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Mercer, Andrew A. (Editor), Schmidt, Axel (Editor), Weber, Olaf (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel : Birkhäuser Basel, 2007.
• Series: Birkhäuser Advances in Infectious Diseases
• Subjects: Medicine.; Medical microbiology.; Biomedicine.; Medical Microbiology.

The recent international alarm at the possible use of smallpox as weapon of bioterror has refocused the attention of the scientific community, public health policy makers and the public on poxviruses. In contrast to the threat posed by some of these viruses, other poxviruses show exciting beneficial...