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More About This Textbook
Overview
Key Features
*Provides a concise overview of animal viruses, emphasizing those causing diseases in humans;
* Integrates discussion of molecular biology, epidemiology, and the history of human viruses;
* Presents treatment of prions, gene therapy, and vaccine development;
* Illustrated in color by an expert virologist;
* Includes world maps depicting the current distribution of existing and newly emerging viruses
Audience: Advanced undergraduate and graduate students in virology, molecular biology, and microbiology.
Editorial Reviews
From The Critics
Reviewer: Gregg N Milligan, Ph.D.(The University of Texas Medical Branch)Description: This book on viruses and human disease is an excellent textbook or supplement for a graduate or undergraduate level virology course. The subject is approached from a human disease point of view but ample descriptions of the basic virology and molecular biology of each virus are provided.
Purpose: The authors have written a virology textbook based on a compilation of lecture material from their own virology courses. This book represents a very focused approach to virology based on a human disease perspective. The authors have succeeded in creating a relevant, well written, and user-friendly textbook.
Audience: The book is intended for students at the undergraduate or graduate level. The authors are internationally recognized leaders in the field of molecular virology. This is a well written and informative book appropriate for students in the life sciences, reflecting the authors' years of experience and expertise in the field of virology.
Features: The book is logically organized into chapters based on viral genome type. Common features and properties of virus families are thoroughly discussed providing a good overview of related viruses in addition to unique information about specific viruses. It is very easy to locate information on any given virus. The book is extremely well written and the color figures and tables are well organized, informative, and easy to understand. This is an excellent source of general information about all human viral pathogens.
Assessment: This book is exceptionally easy to read and full of "need-to-know" material appropriate for students. I found it to be well organized and thoughtfully prepared.
From The Critics
Reviewer: Gregg N Milligan, Ph.D.(The University of Texas Medical Branch)Description: This book on viruses and human disease is an excellent textbook or supplement for a graduate or undergraduate level virology course. The subject is approached from a human disease point of view but ample descriptions of the basic virology and molecular biology of each virus are provided.
Purpose: The authors have written a virology textbook based on a compilation of lecture material from their own virology courses. This book represents a very focused approach to virology based on a human disease perspective. The authors have succeeded in creating a relevant, well written, and user-friendly textbook.
Audience: The book is intended for students at the undergraduate or graduate level. The authors are internationally recognized leaders in the field of molecular virology. This is a well written and informative book appropriate for students in the life sciences, reflecting the authors' years of experience and expertise in the field of virology.
Features: The book is logically organized into chapters based on viral genome type. Common features and properties of virus families are thoroughly discussed providing a good overview of related viruses in addition to unique information about specific viruses. It is very easy to locate information on any given virus. The book is extremely well written and the color figures and tables are well organized, informative, and easy to understand. This is an excellent source of general information about all human viral pathogens.
Assessment: This book is exceptionally easy to read and full of "need-to-know" material appropriate for students. I found it to be well organized and thoughtfully prepared.
Library Journal
A timely expansion of the original 2001 edition, which is based on course notes from James Strauss (Ethel Wilson Bowles & Robert Bowles Professor of Biology, emeritus, California Inst. of Technology), this book includes new, highly detailed examinations of internationally emergent viruses, including America's West Nile and Southeast Asia's Nipah viruses. In addition to geographical distribution maps and full-color illustrative charts, this edition considers viruses' possible role in triggering human pathology. A fascinating exploration of gene therapies and vaccination development concludes the book. Intended for the field specialist, this guide is an excellent complement to S.J. Flint and others' Principles of Virology. Recommended for medical collections in academic libraries.
—Staff
From The Critics
A textbook focusing on viruses as agents of human disease, but also considering essential information about their biology, epidemiology, and pathology; the molecular biology of their reproduction; and the diseases they cause. No more than basic biology is assumed. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)From the Publisher
PRAISE FOR THE PREVIOUS EDITION:"..exceptionally easy to read and full of 'need-to know' material appropriate for students. ...well organized and thoughtfully prepared."
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