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Raymond P. Roos
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University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, USA
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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DNA Viruses
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- Bernard Roizman, Leonard J. Kaplan
Pages 3-23
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- Richard J. Frisque, Frank A. White III
Pages 25-158
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RNA Viruses with DNA Step in Replication
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Front Matter
Pages 159-159
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- Paul K. Y. Wong, P. H. Yuen
Pages 161-197
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- Paul Jolicoeur, Claude Gravel, Denis G. Kay
Pages 199-224
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RNA Viruses with Positive-Sense Genome and No DNA Step in Replication
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Front Matter
Pages 249-249
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- Akio Nomoto, Satoshi Koike
Pages 251-281
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- Raymond P. Roos, Nancy Casteel
Pages 283-318
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- Michael M. C. Lai, Stephen A. Stohlman
Pages 319-348
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- Diane E. Griffin, Pamela C. Tucker, Steven L. Novick
Pages 349-375
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- Christopher H. Contag, John T. Harty, Peter G. W. Plagemann
Pages 377-415
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RNA Viruses with Negative-Sense Genome and No DNA Step in Replication
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Front Matter
Pages 417-417
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- Sibylle Schneider-Schaulies, Volker ter Meulen
Pages 419-448
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- Francisco Gonzalez-Scarano, Michael Endres, David R. Jacoby, Christian Griot, Neal Nathanson
Pages 449-469
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Unconventional Agents
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Front Matter
Pages 471-471
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About this book
Neurovirology, the study of viral infection of the ner vous system, has evolved at the interface of three of the most rapidly unfolding fields of investigation-neurobiology, vi rology, and immunology. In all three, increasing knowledge about the molecular structure of surface receptors, how in tracellular messages are transmitted, and how diversity is regulated genetically is provided, along with the techniques of molecular biology. This promises to give us knowledge not only about the process of infection and the complex host and viral determinants of neuroinvasiveness and neurovirulence, but eventually it will provide the background from which to engineer vaccines and to devise novel therapeutic agents. Animal virology and molecular biology developed quite independently from different origins. Animal virology was originally the province of the pathologists, and by clinical observation and histological preparations, they tried to ex plain the incubation period, the pathways of virus spread, and the mechanisms of disease. Molecular virology grew out of biochemistry, particularly through studies of bacterio phage, with emphasis on the physical and chemical structure of viruses and the sequences of biochemical events during the replicative cycle in cells.
Reviews
To bring together a team of distinguished specialists to discuss current aspects of neurovirology was an excellent idea. This ambitious and...successful review examines virus-induced cell injury and neurological disease ....Referencing is comprehensive and up-to-date, and publication is both timely and welcome.-The Lancet
Editors and Affiliations
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University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, USA
Raymond P. Roos
