Group B Coxsackieviruses (Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, 323) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3540755454 ISBN 13: 9783540755456

Publisher: Springer, 2008

Synopsis

At last – a volume that virologists have been waiting for: a fully updated new edition of a major study in a key subject area. The first edition of this work, published in 1997, described the molecular biology of coxsackie B viruses, as well as clinical, epidemiological, and immunological aspects of group B coxsackievirus disease. This brand new edition covers all the research accomplishments of the last ten years in this vital area of medicine, including immunopathology.

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From the Back Cover:

This monograph reviews information published since 1997 on the group B coxsackieviruses (CVB), a large and important group of human enteroviruses. The CVB were discovered in the mid-20th century, during the search for other poliovirus types, and within a very few years of this discovery, the CVB had been implicated as causes of human myocarditis and pancreatitis. The study of the CVB is still inextricably linked with the fate of their well-known relatives, the polioviruses, for as poliovirus eradication proceeds around the world, the CVB emerge more prominently as the enteroviruses best suited for continuing studies in enteroviral molecular biology as well as understanding the mechanisms underlying enteroviral pathogenesis. This volume reviews and presents modern views on the spectrum of CVB biologies, from interaction of the virus with its receptor through replication, speciation, and induction of disease.

About this edition

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 3540755454
• ISBN 13: 9783540755456
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 359
• Editor: Tracy Steven, Oberste M. Steven, Drescher Kristen M.