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Viruses

From Understanding to Investigation

  • 2 Edición - 23 de septiembre de 2022
  • Última edición
  • Autor: Susan Payne
  • Idioma: Inglés

Viruses: From Understanding to Investigation, Second Edition presents the definitions and unique characteristics of viruses. The book includes major topics such as virus lifecycle… Leer más

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Viruses: From Understanding to Investigation, Second Edition presents the definitions and unique characteristics of viruses. The book includes major topics such as virus lifecycle, structure, taxonomy, evolution, history, host-virus interactions, and methods to study. In addition, the book assesses the connections between the aforementioned topics and provides an integrated approach and in-depth understanding of how viruses work. The new edition also provides an expanded methods chapter containing new information on deep sequencing for in virus identification, mathematical formulas to calculate titers and a description of quantitiative PCR for enumerating viruses. The vaccine chapter has been updated to include vaccine efficacy, mRNA vaccines and SARS-CoV-2 vaccine development. The viral pathogenesis chapter has been expanded to include mechanisms of virally induced cancers. Viral taxonomy sections have been updated and chapters revised to accommodate new virus family designations. New chapters include nucleocytoplasmic viruses (very large DNA viruses), replication of viroids and COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2.

Puntos claves

  • Employs a comparative strategy to emphasize unique structural and molecular characteristics that inform transmission, disease processes, vaccine strategies, and host responses
  • Presents a review of host cell, molecular biology, and the immune system
  • Features topical areas of research, including genomics in virus discovery, the virome, and beneficial interactions between viruses and their hosts
  • Includes text boxes throughout with experimental approaches used by virologists
  • Covers learning objectives in each chapter

De interès para

Advanced undergraduate, graduate students, and professors in virology, molecular biology and microbiology

Índice

1. Introduction to animal viruses

2. Virus structure

3. Virus interactions with the cell

4. Methods to study viruses

5. Virus transmission and epidemiology

6. Immunity and resistance to viruses

7. Viral vaccines

8. Antiviral agents

9. Virus evolution and genetics

10. Viral pathogenesis

11. Introduction to RNA viruses

12. Family Picornaviridae

13. Family Caliciviridae

14. Family Hepeviridae

15. Family Astroviridae

16. Family Flaviviridae
Families Togaviridae and Matonaviridae

18. Family Coronaviridae

19. SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19

20. Family Arteriviridae

21. Family Rhabdoviridae

22. Family Paramyxoviridae

23. Family Pneumoviridae

24. Family Filoviridae

25. Family Bornaviridae

26. Family Orthomyxoviridae

27. Family Hantaviridae

28. Order Bunyavirales: Families Peribunyaviridae, Phenuiviridae, and Nairoviridae

29. Family Arenaviridae

30. Family Reoviridae

31. Family Birnaviridae

32. Hepatitis delta virus

33. Introduction to DNA viruses

34. Family Parvoviridae

35. Other small DNA viruses

36. Family Polyomaviridae

37. Family Papillomaviridae

38. Family Adenoviridae

39. Family Herpesviridae

40. Family Poxviridae

41. Other large DNA viruses

42. Family Retroviridae

43. Replication and pathogenesis of human immunodeficiency virus

44. Family Hepadnaviridae

Detalles del producto

  • Edición: 2
  • Última edición
  • Publicado: 23 de septiembre de 2022
  • Idioma: Inglés

Sobre el autor

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Susan Payne

Susan Payne is an associate professor emeritus at Texas A&M University. Her primary research interests were molecular aspects of viral replication, pathogenesis and evolution. For many years her research focused on equine infectious anemia virus (EIAV), an equine retrovirus. She published extensively on genetic and antigenic variation and the molecular basis of EIAV pathogenesis. She also studied avian bornaviruses, negative strand RNA viruses that are the etiological agents of proventricular dilatation disease of parrots. Her long teaching career included courses for undergraduate and graduate students as well as participation in courses for medical and veterinary students. She was a member of the Bornavirus Study Group of the International Committee for Taxonomy of Viruses from 2014-2019.
Afiliaciones y experiencia
Associate Professor, Department of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, USA

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