Emerging viruses /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1996.
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Table of Contents:
- (cont) Ecological sources of emerging viruses
- Arthropod-borne viruses / Thomas P. Monath
- Hantaan (Korean Hemorrhagic Fever) and related rodent zoonoses / James W. LeDuc [and others]
- Filoviruses / C.J. Peters [and others]
- Interspecies transfer: case studies of animal viruses that recently crossed species
- Human monkeypox, a newly discovered human virus disease / Frank Fenner
- Seal plague virus / Brian W.J. Mahy
- Canine parvovirus 2: a probable example of interspecies transfer / Colin R. Parrish
- How viruses evolve: variation and evolution of RNA viruses
- Replication error, quasispecies populations, and extreme evolution rates of RNA viruses / John Holland
- High rate of retrovirus variation results in rapid evolution / Howard M. Temin
- Evolution of influenza and RNA viruses / Peter Palese
- Factors restraining emergence of new influenza viruses / Brian Murphy
- Recombination in the evolution of RNA viruses / James H. Strauss
- Evolutionary relationships of vectors and viruses / Bruce F. Eldridge.
- (cont) Prospects for the future
- Global change and epidemiology: nasty synergies / Thomas E. Lovejoy
- Are we prepared for a viral epidemic emergency? / Llewellyn J. Legters, Linda H. Brink and Ernest T. Takafuji
- Surveillance systems and intergovernmental cooperation / Donald A. Henderson
- Afterword: a personal summary presented as a guide for discussion / Edwin D. Kilbourne.