Overview
- Provides trajectories and illustrations of viruses that have catapulted into the global arena
- Discusses the need for educating the public on good hygienic practices as a means of curbing the spread of infectious diseases
- Some of the viruses covered include Ebola, Dengue, Papillomavirus, Hepatitis C, Nipah, Giant, Hanta, Bunya, West Nile Virus, Zikavirus, XMRV, and HIV
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- vaccines
- environmental impact
- emerging virus transmission
- Filovirus (Ebola)
- hemorrhagic fevers
- flaviviruses
- Dengue evasion
- papillomaviruses
- Hepatitis C
- Nipah virus
- giant viruses
- hantaviruses
- bunyaviruses
- encephalitides
- West Nile virus
- Zika virus
- XMRV
- henipaviruses
- human respiratory syncytial virus
- influenza A virus
- several aspects of HIV-1
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Table of contents (30 chapters)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Paul Shapshak, PhD is a member of the Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, Department of Internal Medicine, and the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine,at USF Morsani School of Medicine. His research interests include molecular virology.
John Sinnott, MD, is Chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine at the USF Morsani College of Medicine and holds the James Cullison Professorship in Infectious Diseases.
Charurut Somboonwit, MD, FACP, is an Associate Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases and International Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, at USF Morsani School of Medicine. Her research interests include topics in general infectious diseases, and HIV and its long-term complications.
Jens H. Kuhn, MD, PhD, PhD, MS, is a Principal at Tunnell Government Services, Inc. (Bethesda, Maryland, USA) tasked to fulfill the role of Virology Lead at the NIH/NIAID Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland, USA. His research interests include high-consequence (BSL-4) pathogen research, biodefense, and medical countermeasure development.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Global Virology I - Identifying and Investigating Viral Diseases
Editors: Paul Shapshak, John T. Sinnott, Charurut Somboonwit, Jens H. Kuhn
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2410-3
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-2409-7Published: 14 July 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-4708-9Published: 15 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4939-2410-3Published: 13 July 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 840
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations, 98 illustrations in colour
Topics: Virology, Immunology, Vaccine