Viral gastroenteritis.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Imprint: | Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, 2003. |
| Description: | xii, 707 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Perspectives in medical virology ; v. 9 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4970155 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Section I. Viral Gastroenteritis: Causes, Pathophysiology, Immunology, Treatment and Epidemiology
- Introduction
- 1.. Viral causes of gastroenteritis
- 2.. Physiology and pathophysiology of the gut in relation to viral diarrhea
- 3.. The enteric nervous system and infectious diarrhea
- 4.. Immunology of the gut
- 5.. Treatment of viral gastroenteritis
- Section II. Rotaviruses
- Introduction
- 1.. Structural organization of the genome in rotavirus
- 2.. The three-dimensional structure of rotavirus VP6
- 3.. Attachment and post-attachment receptors for rotavirus
- 4.. Rotavirus genome replication: role of the RNA-binding proteins
- 5.. Translation of rotavirus mRNAs in the infected cell
- 6.. The rotavirus NSP4 enterotoxin: current status and challenges
- 7.. Interaction of the rotavirus nonstructural glycoprotein NSP4 with viral and cellular components
- 8.. Effects of rotavirus infection on the structure and functions of intestinal cells
- 9.. Microarrays and host-virus interactions: A transcriptional analysis of Caco-2 cells following rotavirus infection
- 10.. The rat model of rotavirus infection
- 11.. Human adaptive immunity to rotaviruses: A model of intestinal mucosal adaptive immunity
- 12.. Molecular epidemiology of rotaviruses: Genetic mechanisms associated with diversity
- 13.. Current state of development of human rotavirus vaccines
- 14.. Rotavirus-like particle vaccines evaluated in a pig model of human rotavirus diarrhea and in cattle
- 15.. DNA-based rotavirus vaccines
- Section III. Enteric Adenoviruses
- Introduction
- 1.. Aspects of the molecular biology of enteric adenoviruses
- 2.. Epidemiology of enteric adenoviruses 40 and 41 and other adenoviruses in immunocompetent and immunodeficient individuals
- Section IV. Norwalk- and Sapporo-Like Viruses (Human Caliciviruses)
- Introduction
- 1.. Structure of Norwalk virus: the prototype human calicivirus
- 2.. Feline calicivirus as a model for the study of calicivirus replication
- 3.. Pathogenesis of enteric calicivirus infections
- 4.. Development of serological and molecular tests for the diagnosis of calicivirus infections
- 5.. Molecular epidemiology of human caliciviruses
- 6.. Calicivirus RNA recombination
- Section V. Astroviruses
- Introduction
- 1.. Studies on the molecular biology of human astrovirus
- 2.. Ribosomal frameshifting in astroviruses
- 3.. Molecular epidemiology of human astroviruses
- Section VI. Other Viruses Causing Gastroenteritis
- Introduction
- 1.. Epidemiology of toroviruses
- 2.. Molecular characterization and epidemiology of picobirnaviruses
- 3.. Molecular biology and epidemiology of Aichi virus and other diarrhoeogenic enteroviruses
- 4.. Histopathology of viral gastrointestinal infections in the immunocompromised
- List of Contributors
- Subject Index
