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Author: Leslie Collier, John Oxford
Affiliation: University of London
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Date: 2006
ISBN 10: 0198566603
ISBN 13: 9780198566601
Edition: 3rd
Description:
This third edition includes major revisions, and integrates the interface between science and medicine more than it did previously. It includes new material on SARS and the latest advances in the study of Prion diseases. A brief but comprehensive introduction to the fascinating subject of virology. Eminently suitable for medical, dental and bioscience students; the third edition of Human Virology builds on the success of the previous editions with new material included on SARS, Prion diseases and hepatitis. Virology is a fascinating subject, with viruses inhabiting a twilight world somewhere in-between the animate and inanimate. Viruses are essentially intracellular parasites, unable to reproduce themselves outside living cells. Virology is a relatively new science, having to await the invention of the electron microscope before real progress in elucidating the viral structure and function could be made. The third edition of Collier and Oxford's Human Virology builds on the strengths of the previous editions. Students are often overwhelmed with information, and this book acknowledges this fact by presenting factual information in a user-friendly and accessible format which piques student interest and painlessly encourages retention of facts. The authors' intent is not to turn their readers into virologists but rather to provide them with enough knowledge of the nature of viruses andvirus infections to serve as an essential background for later involvement with the subject.The new edition has been extensively updated, with many new diagrams included.New material has been added on:· Plant and bacterial viruses.· Coronaviruses, focusing on SARS.· Monkeypox infections in humans and the possible use of smallpox as a biological weapon.· Latest advances on chemotherapy of herpesviruses.· Updated material on Prion diseases, focusing on new variant CJD.· New material on the debate between MMR versus single vaccine. A brief but comprehensive int
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