Human virology : a text for students of medicine, denistry, and microbiology /
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| Author / Creator: | Collier, L. H. (Leslie Harold), 1921-2011 |
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| Imprint: | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1993. |
| Description: | xii, 398 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Oxford medical publications. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2474297 |
Table of Contents:
- Part 1. General Principles
- 1. How it all began
- 2. General properties and classification of viruses
- 3. Virral replication and genetics
- 4. How viruses cause disease
- 5. Resistance to infection
- 6. Viruses and cancer
- 7. Viruses and the community
- Part 2. Specific infections
- 8. Upper respiratory tract and eye infections due to adenoviruses,coronaviruses, and rhinoviruses
- 9. Childhood infections caused by paramyxoviruses
- 10. Orthomyxoviruses and influenza
- 11. Gastroenteritis viruses
- 12. Rubella: postnatal infections
- 13. Parvoviruses
- 14. Poxviruses
- 15. Papovaviruses
- 16. Poliomyelitis and other picornavirus infections
- 17. The herpesviruses: general properties
- 18. Alphaherpesviruses
- 19. Betaherpesviruses
- 20. Gammaherpesviruses
- 21. Introduction to the hepatitis viruses
- 22. The bloodborne hepatitis viruses B and delta
- 23. The enteric hepatitis viruses A and E
- 24. The bloodborne hepatitis flaviviruses
- 25. Retroviruses and AIDS26. Lyssavirus and rabies
- 27. Arthropod-borne viruses
- 28. Some exotic and dangerous infections: filoviruses, arenaviruses andhantaviruses
- 29. Prion diseases: the spongiform encephalopathies
- Part 3. Special syndromes
- 30. Viral diseases of the central nervous system
- 31. Intrauterine and perinatal infections
- 32. Viral infections in patients with defective immunity
- 33. Summary of viral respiratory infections
- 34. Summary of sexually transmitted viral infections
- 35. Resurgent and emergent viral infections
- Part 4. Practical aspects
- 36. The laboratory diagnosis of viral infections
- 37. Control of viral diseases by immunization
- 38. Antiviral chemotherapy
- Appendices:A. Safety precautions: codes of practice, disinfection and sterilization
- B. Viral infections notifiable in the UKC
- Suggestions for further reading
