E-Book, Englisch, Band 323, 340 Seiten, eBook
Tracy / Oberste / Drescher Group B Coxsackieviruses
2008
ISBN: 978-3-540-75546-3
Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
E-Book, Englisch, Band 323, 340 Seiten, eBook
Reihe: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology
ISBN: 978-3-540-75546-3
Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
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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Section 1: CVB Genetics.- Coxsackieviruses and quasispecies theory: evolution of enteroviruses.- Comparative genomics of the coxsackie B viruses and related enteroviruses.- Group B coxsackievirus virulence.- Section 2: CVB Entry and Replication.- The coxsackievirus and adenovirus receptor (CAR).- Coxsackievirus B RNA replication: Lessons from poliovirus.- CVB translation: Lessons from the polioviruses.- Preferential coxsackievirus replication in proliferating/activated cells: implications for virus tropism, persistence, and pathogenesis.- Section 3 Host-Virus Interaction.- The impact of CVB3 infection on host cell biology.- Host immune responses to coxsackievirus B3.- Pediatric group B coxsackievirus infections.- Pancreas.- CVB-induced pancreatitis and alterations in gene expression.- The CVB and etiology of type 1 diabetes.- Heart.- Persistent coxsackievirus infection: Enterovirus persistence in chronic myocarditis and dilated cardiomyopathy.- Autoimmunity in coxsackievirus infection.- CVB infection and mechanisms of viral cardiomyopathy.- Subject index.
