Comprehensive Virology

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. Bunyaviridae

   • David H. L. Bishop, Robert E. Shope

   Pages 1-156

3. Arenaviruses

   • William E. Rawls, Wai-Choi Leung

   Pages 157-192

4. Coronaviridae

   • James A. Robb, Clifford W. Bond

   Pages 193-247

5. Caliciviruses

   • Frederick L. Schaffer

   Pages 249-284

6. Orbiviruses

   • D. W. Verwoerd, H. Huismans, B. J. Erasmus

   Pages 285-345

7. Icosahedral Cytoplasmic Deoxyriboviruses

   • Rakesh Goorha, Allan Granoff

   Pages 347-399

8. Fish Viruses and Viral Infections

   • Philip E. McAllister

   Pages 401-470

9. Viruses of Human Hepatitis A and B

   • William S. Robinson

   Pages 471-526

10. Back Matter

    Pages 527-544

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The time seems ripe for a critical compendium of that segment of the biological universe we call viruses. Virology, as a science, having passed only recently through its descriptive phase of naming and num­ bering, has probably reached that stage at which relatively few new-truly new-viruses will be discovered. Triggered by the intellectual probes and techniques of molecular biology, genetics, bio­ chemical cytology, and high resolution microscopy and spec­ troscopy, the field has experienced a genuine information explosion. Few serious attempts have been made to chronicle these events. This comprehensive series, which will comprise some 6000 pages in a total of about 18 volumes, represents a commitment by a large group of active investigators to analyze, digest, and expostulate on the great mass of data relating to viruses, much of which is now amorphous and disjointed, and scattered throughout a wide literature. In this way, we hope to place the entire field in perspective, and to develop an invalua­ ble reference and sourcebook for researchers and students at all levels. This series is designed as a continuum that can be entered anywhere, but which also provides a logical progression of developing facts and integrated concepts.

• genetics
• molecular biology
• virology

• Department of Molecular Biology and Virus Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, USA

  Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat

• Department of Microbiology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA

  Robert R. Wagner

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