TY - BOOK AU - Shors,Teri TI - Understanding viruses SN - 9780763729325 (alk. paper) AV - RC114.5 .S46 2009 U1 - 616.0194 SHO/Und 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Sudbury, Mass. PB - Jones and Bartlett Publishers KW - Virus diseases KW - Viruses KW - Virus Diseases N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction to viruses -- Eukaryotic molecular biology and host cell constraints -- Virus replication cycles -- Virus architecture and nomenclature -- Laboratory diagnosis of viral diseases -- Mechanisms of viral entry and spread of infection in the body -- Host resistance to viral infections -- Epidemiology -- The history of medicine, clinical trials, gene therapy, and xenotransplantation -- Viruses and cancer -- Poliovirus and other enteroviruses -- Influenza viruses -- Rabies -- Poxviruses -- Herpesviruses -- Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) -- Hepatitis viruses -- New viruses and viruses that are reemerging -- What about prions and viroids? -- Plant viruses -- The best for last: bacteriophages UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0717/2007019380.html ER -