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Introduction to modern virology /

Dimmock, N. J.

Introduction to modern virology / N.J. Dimmock, A.J. Easton, K.N. Leppard. - 6th ed. - Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2007. - xiv, 516 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.

Previous ed.: 2001.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Towards a definition of a virus -- Some methods for studying animal viruses -- The structure of virus particles -- Classification of viruses -- The process of infection : I. attachment of viruses and the entry of their genomes into the target cell -- The process of infection : IIA. the replication of viral DNA -- The process of infection : IIB. genome replication in RNA viruses -- The process of infection : IIC. the replication of RNA viruses with a DNA intermediate and vice versa -- The process of infection : IIIA. gene expression in DNA viruses and reverse-transcribing viruses -- The process of infection : IIIB. gene expression and its regulation in RNA viruses -- The process of infection : IV. the assembly of viruses -- The immune system and virus neutralization -- Interactions between animal viruses and cells -- Animal virus-host interactions -- Mechanisms in virus latency -- Transmission of viruses -- The evolution of viruses -- Human viral disease : an overview -- HIV and AIDS -- Carcinogenesis and tumor viruses -- Vaccines and antivirals : the prevention and treatment of virus diseases -- Prion diseases -- Horizons in human virology -- Viruses that multiply in vertebrate and invertebrate animals -- Viruses that multiply in plants -- Viruses that multiply in algae, fungi, and protozoa -- Viruses (phages) that multiply in Archaea, bacteria, Mycoplasma, and Spiroplasma -- Satellite viruses and satellite nucleic acids of viruses of animals, plants, and bacteria -- Viroids (genome unclassified as they synthesize no mRNA). 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. App. 1. App. 2. App. 3. App. 4. App. 5. App. 6.

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Virology.
Virus diseases.
Viruses.
Virus Diseases.


Medicine

QR360 / .D56 2007

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QW 160 / D582i 2007

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