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Bluetongue Viruses

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1990

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Part of the book series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology (CT MICROBIOLOGY, volume 162)

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Bluetongue viruses (BTV) cause diseases that have serious economic consequences in ruminants (sheep, cattle) in many parts of the world. The incidence of bluetongue disease affects the international movement of animals and germ plasm. Although the etiological agent of the disease was isolated in 1900 and preliminary biochemical characterizations were pub­ lished as early as in 1969, most of the current understanding of the molecular biology, biochemistry, and genetics of BTV has evolved only recently. Triggered by the modern techniques of molecular biology, genetics, and immunology, BTV research has experienced an information explosion in the past 10 years. However, much of this information is scattered throughout an extensive literature. It is therefore an appropriate time to meld this together into a reference book. This book includes compre­ hensive information on BTV research provided in articles contributed by researchers from around the world. It covers what is known about the molecular structure of the virus and the current understanding of its biology, evolution, and relationships with its invertebrate and vertebrate hosts (infection, immunity, and pathogenicity).

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dept. of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, USA

    Polly Roy

  • Agricultural Research Service, Arthropod-borne Animal Diseases Research Laboratory, United States Dept. of Agriculture, Laramie, USA

    Barry M. Gorman

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Bluetongue Viruses

  • Editors: Polly Roy, Barry M. Gorman

  • Series Title: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75247-6

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer-Verlag GmbH, DE, part of Springer Nature 1990

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-75249-0Published: 03 October 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-75247-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0070-217X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2196-9965

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 202

  • Number of Illustrations: 27 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Virology, Medical Microbiology, Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering, Internal Medicine

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