TY - BOOK AU - Shors,Teri TI - Understanding viruses SN - 9781284025927 PY - 2017/// CY - Burlington, Massachusetts PB - Jones & Bartlett Learning KW - Viruses KW - Virus Physiological Phenomena KW - Virus diseases N1 - This book includes online access at www.jblearning.com, please refer library staff for the password; Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction to viruses -- Virus architecture and nomenclature -- Eucaryotic molecular biology, cellular hurdles and how viruses hijack host cells -- Mechanisms of viral entry and spread of infection in the body -- Host resistance to viral infections -- Epidemiology -- Laboratory diagnosis of viral diseases and working with viruses in the research laboratory -- Poliovirus and other enteroviruses -- Influenza viruses -- Hepatitis viruses -- Herpesviruses -- Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) -- Rabies -- Poxviruses -- New viruses and viruses that are reemerging -- Viruses and cancer -- The history of medicine, clinical trials, gene therapy, and xenotransplantation -- What about prions and viroids? -- Plant viruses -- The best for last : bacteriophages ER -