Hepatitis E Virus

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Wang, Youchun (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Σειρά: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 948
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Vaccines.; Virology.; Infectious diseases.; Biology > Technique.; Biomedicine.; Vaccine.; Biological Techniques.; Infectious Diseases.

This book systematically and comprehensively discusses the biological, epidemiological and clinical characteristics of the hepatitis E virus (HEV). It presents current knowledge of HEV and explores experimental methods, treatment and prevention of HEV. First identified in the 1980s and cloned in 199...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Hepatitis E virus (HEV) biology
• Characteristics and functions of HEV proteins
• Epidemiology of hepatitis E
• Hepatitis E as a zoonosis
• Genetic evolution of HEV
• Transmission of HEV
• Immunobiology and host response
• HEV cell culture systems
• HEV animal models
• Clinical manifestations of hepatitis E
• Laboratory diagnosis of HEV infection
• Treatment of HEV infection
• Prophylactic Hepatitis E vaccine.