Overview
- Furnishes up-to-date knowledge from established experts
- Provides an overview and recent advances in this field
- Covers not only basic virology but also clinical issues
Part of the book series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology (AEMB, volume 1045)
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Alphaherpesviruses
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Front Matter
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Betaherpesviruses
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Keywords
About this book
This book introduces and reviews several topics for each human herpesvirus. One of the most important features of the book is that it covers aspects of both basic research and clinical medicine. Herpesviridae, a family of double-strand DNA viruses, has unique biological features by which these viruses establish latency after primary infection and reactivate in later life. Nine human herpesviruses are known so far, and each of them causes a variety of diseases in both primary infection and reactivation. Since the discovery of each human herpesvirus, an abundance of findings related to them has accumulated in basic research and clinical medicine. However, the vast majority of biological features is still masked in mystery. Furthermore, a strategy of treatment and prevention has not yet been established for most human herpesviruses. A wide range of readers will be interested in this volume with its treatment of problematic points and latest findings in the field.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Division of Molecular Virology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo
Tokyo, Japan
Yasuko Mori
Division of Clinical Virology
Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine
Kobe, Japan
Hiroshi Kimura
Department of Virology
Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine
Nagoya, Japan
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Human Herpesviruses
Editors: Yasushi Kawaguchi, Yasuko Mori, Hiroshi Kimura
Series Title: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7230-7
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-7229-1Published: 21 June 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-3927-1Published: 05 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-7230-7Published: 12 June 2018
Series ISSN: 0065-2598
Series E-ISSN: 2214-8019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 501
Number of Illustrations: 28 b/w illustrations, 41 illustrations in colour
Topics: Virology, Infectious Diseases, Immunology