Introduction to Modern Virology
5th Edition
Published on 20. October 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
464 pages
978-0-632-05509-8 (ISBN)
Description
Introduction to Modern Virology, an established student text for over 25 years, has been fully revised and updated in this fifth edition. Providing an integrated account of animal, plant and bacterial viruses, this book covers the field of virology from molecular biology to disease processes. Topics include the molecular aspects of virion structure, virus entry, replication and gene expression of RNA and DNA viruses and the classic paradigm of lysogeny, whilst on the biomedical side, chapters deal with virus cultivation, immunology and carcinogenesis. Uniquely, human and animal virus diseases are dealt with generically within the text, bringing all infections within a highly manageable seven-section framework. Prevention and therapy, evolution and emerging viruses receive particular attention and specific chapters address the major infectious challenges posed by HIV, pandemic influenza and BSE. This highly accessible new edition provides ideal reading for all undergraduate and postgraduate students of biology and medicine wishing to study virology.
Reviews / Votes
"Dimmock and Primrose occupies a justified niche ... and certainly provides an easy access to virology for the undergraduate or beginning postgraduate ... That this is the fourth edition must attest to the popularity of the authors' approach over the 20 years since the first edition was published." (Trends in Microbiology, 1995 on the fourth edition) The eminent readability of the text, coupled with the useful provision of references to the recent literature, should encourage the reader to investigate further and thereby gain a fuller picture of the present and future directions of virology." (Society for General Microbiology Quarterly, 1995, on the fourth edition)More details
Edition
5th edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
462
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 171 mm
Weight
992 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-632-05509-8 (9780632055098)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
1. Towards a definition of a virus 2. Some methods for studying animal viruses 3. The structure of viruses 4. Viral nucleic acids 5. The process of infection: I. Attachment of viruses and the entry of their genomes into the target cell 6. The process of infection: IIA. The replication of viral DNA 7. The process of infection: IIB. Genome RNA synthesis by RNA viruses 8.The process of infection: IIC. The replication of RNA viruses with a DNA intermediate and vice versa 9. The process of infection: IIIA. Gene expression and its regulation in DNA viruses 10. The process of infection: IIIB. Gene expression and its regulation in RNA viruses 11. The process of infection: IV. The assembly of viruses 12. Lytic and lysogenic replication of bacteriophage l 13. Interactions between animal viruses and cells 14. The immune system, virus neutralization, and interferon 15. Animal virus-host interactions 16. Vaccines and antivirals: the prevention and treatment of virus diseases 17. Carcinogenesis and tumour viruses 18. The evolution of viruses 19. HIV and AIDS 20. Prion diseases 21. Trends in virology 22. The classification and nomenclature of viruses