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| Preface | ||
| 1 | Overview of Viruses and Virus Infection | |
| Classification of Viruses | 5 | |
| An Overview of the Replication Cycle of Viruses | 8 | |
| Effects of Virus Infection on the Host Cell | 27 | |
| Epidemiology: The Spread of Viruses from Person to Person | 29 | |
| 2 | The Structure of Viruses | |
| Helical Symmetry | 33 | |
| Icosahedral Symmetry | 34 | |
| Nonenveloped Viruses with More Complicated Structural Features | 43 | |
| Enveloped Viruses | 43 | |
| Assembly of Virions | 52 | |
| Stability of Virions | 55 | |
| 3 | Plus-Strand RNA and Double-Strand RNA Viruses | |
| Family Picornaviridae | 58 | |
| Family Caliciviridae | 71 | |
| Family Astroviridae | 74 | |
| Family Togaviridae | 76 | |
| Family Flaviviridae | 85 | |
| Family Coronaviridae | 100 | |
| Family Arteriviridae | 103 | |
| The Plus-Strand RNA Viruses of Plants | 104 | |
| Origin and Evolution of Plus-Strand RNA Viruses | 105 | |
| Viruses That Contain Double-Stranded RNA: Family Reoviridae | 108 | |
| 4 | Minus-Strand RNA Viruses | |
| Overview of the Minus-Strand RNA Viruses | 123 | |
| Family Rhabdoviridae | 126 | |
| Family Paramyxoviridae | 132 | |
| Family Filoviridae | 144 | |
| Family Bornaviridae | 146 | |
| Family Orthomyxoviridae | 147 | |
| Family Bunyaviridae | 156 | |
| Family Arenaviridae | 162 | |
| Evolution of Minus-Strand RNA Viruses | 168 | |
| 5 | Viruses Whose Life Cycle Uses Reverse Transcriptase | |
| Family Retroviridae | 172 | |
| Family Hepadnaviridae | 210 | |
| 6 | DNA-Containing Viruses | |
| Family Poxviridae | 223 | |
| Family Herpesviridae | 234 | |
| Family Adenoviridae | 252 | |
| Family Polyomaviridae | 259 | |
| Family Papillomaviridae | 265 | |
| Family Parvoviridae | 270 | |
| TT Virus: A Newly Described Human Virus | 276 | |
| 7 | Subviral Agents | |
| Defective Interfering Viruses | 279 | |
| Satellites and Satellite Viruses | 283 | |
| Viroids and Virusoids | 284 | |
| Hepatitis [sigma] | 284 | |
| Prions and Prion Diseases | 291 | |
| 8 | Host Defenses against Viral Infection and Viral Counterdefenses | |
| Adaptive Immune System | 303 | |
| Innate Immune System | 323 | |
| Viral Counterdefenses | 334 | |
| Interactions of Viruses with Their Hosts | 345 | |
| 9 | Gene Therapy | |
| Virus Vector Systems | 347 | |
| Use of Viruses as Expression Vectors | 357 | |
| App. A: References for Figures | 367 | |
| App. B: References for Tables | 373 | |
| Index | 375 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
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John Gjonlekaj
reviewed Viruses and Human Disease on November 15, 2009
Viruses and Human Disease
The book opens with the mass poisoning of thousands of people in Bangladesh by drinking water contaminated with arsenic. This book has a very important current environmental message for all of us because environmental arsenic is not just a problem facing Bangladesh. There is a USGS map on page 161 showing the states in the U.S. where acquifers used for drinking water contain dangerously high levels of arsenic. As a cancer patient, I have often wondered why I keep meeting people who are being treated for cancer but are in none of the high-risk groups. I was surprised to read in this book that years of exposure to water contaminated with non-lethal levels of arsenic causes lung cancer. Unfortunately, this surprising information is floating around in a hodge-podge of history and unrelated anecdotes.
I would have assumed that a major publishing company like Macmillan still employed editors in 2005 but, apparently, I was wrong. The author is obviously extremely knowledgeable, and the separate topics he addresses are all interesting but the book is totally disjointed.
I imagine that the author wrote a long academic article addressing the arsenic contaminated well water in Bangladesh, a medium length exposé on the history and ethics of William Morris & Company. Someone remarked "You have almost enough material for a book." The author tossed in a short popular article on the worldwide problem of environmental arsenic, and several short sensational anecdotes about murders committed using arsenic and mailed the separate articles to Macmillan. His publisher dropped the articles on the floor, told an intern to put them back in order and then published them.
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