Handbook of Filterable Viruses
Handbook of Filterable Viruses

Author: R. W. Fairbrother

Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann

Published: 2016-01-22

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 1483225666

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Handbook of Filterable Viruses present a general survey of the filterable viruses, particularly those causing disease in man. This book is composed of eight chapters, and begins with an overview of the history and research works on filterable viruses. The next chapters describe the nature, cultivation, and methods of analysis of these viruses, as well as the epidemiology, immunity, and classification of infectious diseases caused by them. The remaining chapters explore the numerous diseases considered to be caused by filterable viruses. This book will prove useful to biochemists, bacteriologists, researchers, and students, as well as the general readers who are interested in disease-causing viruses.

Crafting Immunity
Crafting Immunity

Author: Jennifer Keelan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-03-02

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 1351947893

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Immunity is as old as illness itself, yet historians have only just begun to take up the challenge of reconstructing the modern transformation of attempts to protect against disease. Crafting Immunity assembles in one volume the most recent efforts of an international group of scholars to place the diverse practices of immunity in their historical contexts. It is this diversity that provides the book with its greatest source of strength. Collectively, the papers in this volume suggest that it was the craft-like, small-scale, and local conditions of clinical medicine that turned the immunity of individuals and populations into biomedical objects. That is to say, the modern conception of immunity was at least as much the product of the work of healing as it was the systematic result of discoveries about the immune system. Working outside the narrow confines of laboratory histories, Crafting Immunity is the first attempt to set the problems of immunity into a variety of social, technological, institutional and intellectual contexts. It will appeal not only to historians and sociologists of health, but also to social and cultural historians interested in the biomedical creation of modern health regimens.

Antibodies in Viral Infection
Antibodies in Viral Infection

Author: Dennis R. Burton

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2001-06-06

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9783540416111

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Antibodies are central to vaccines and it is becoming increasingly apparent that understanding how antibodies combat viruses could be crucial in a new era of vaccine development. This book describes the state of the art in explaining the anti-viral activity of antibodies at the molecular level, with chapters from many of the leaders in the field.

To Catch a Virus
To Catch a Virus

Author: John Booss

Publisher: ASM Press

Published: 2013-03-19

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781555815073

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Expert storytellers weave together the science, technological advances, medical urgencies, and human stories that chronicle the development of the field of diagnostic virology. Follows a historical discoveries that defined viruses and their roles in infectious diseases over a century of developments, epidemics, and molecular advances, and continuing into the 21st century with AIDS, HIV, and a future that in no way resembles the past. Features the great names and personalities of diagnostic virology, their contributions, their associations, and their challenges to prove findings that some considered fantasy. Describes how scientists applied revolutionary technologies, studying viruses, first in animal models and tissue culture and progressing to molecular and genetic techniques. Appeals to the pioneer and adventure-seeker who is interested in how a scientific field evolves.

Comprehensive Virology
Comprehensive Virology

Author: Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 1461330092

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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.