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...

Table of Contents:

• Genus Orthopoxvirus: Vaccinia virus
• Genus Orthopoxvirus: Variola virus
• Genus Orthopoxvirus: Monkeypox virus
• Genus Orthopoxvirus: Cowpox virus
• Genus Molluscipoxvirus
• Genus Yatapoxvirus
• Genus Parapoxvirus
• Genus Capripoxvirus
• Genus Leporipoxvirus
• Genus Suipoxvirus
• Genus Avipoxvirus
• Subfamily Entomopoxvirinae
• Immunomodulation by poxviruses
• Immunomodulation by inactivated Orf virus (ORFV) - therapeutic potential
• Recombinant poxvirus vaccines in biomedical research
• Orthopoxvirus vaccines and vaccination
• Poxvirus diagnostics
• Therapy of poxvirus infections
• Environmental resistance, disinfection, and sterilization of poxviruses
• Early disease management strategies in case of a smallpox outbreak
• Historic aspects and early smallpox management approaches in the New World.