TY - BOOK AU - Shors,Teri TI - Understanding viruses SN - 9781449648923 (pbk.) AV - RC114.5 .S46 2013 U1 - 616.0194 SHO/Und 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Burlington, MA PB - Jones & Bartlett Learning KW - Virus diseases KW - Viruses KW - Virus Diseases KW - Virus Physiological Phenomena N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction to viruses -- Eukaryotic molecular biology and host cell constraints -- Virus architecture and nomenclature -- Virus replication cycles -- Laboratory diagnosis of viral diseases and working with viruses in the reseach laboratory -- 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 ER -