A Practical Guide to Clinical Virology

✍ Scribed by L. R. Haaheim, J. R. Pattison, R. J. Whitley

• Publisher: Wiley
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 286
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This Second Edition of A Practical Guide to Clinical Virology is a practical, highly illustrated, quick reference guide to clinical virology. It brings together the essentials of the subject in a entertaining and informative style, describing in turn the clinical features, the symptoms and signs of each of the viral diseases, as well as summarising the epidemiology, laboratory diagnosis and therapy in each case. This book also includes general chapters on classification, diagnosis of infection, antiviral drugs, vaccines and different clinical syndromes.

Key Features:

• Chapter summaries for quick reference
• Cartoon illustrations
• Comprehensive coverage
• Clear and concise format

Each chapter is easy to read and well organised, ensuring that this is an invaluable textbook for all medical, biomedical, microbiology and applied biology students. In addition, it provides an excellent reference for nurses, occupational health and infection control departments, public health and diagnostic laboratories.

✦ Table of Contents

CONTENTS......Page 5
CONTRIBUTORS......Page 9
PREFACE......Page 11
PREFACE TO 1ST EDITION......Page 13
ABBREVIATIONS......Page 15
REFERENCES FOR FURTHER READING......Page 17
1. CLASSIFICATION AND NOMENCLATURE OF HUMAN AND ANIMAL VIRUSES......Page 19
2. VIRUSES AND DISEASE......Page 24
3. LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS OF VIRUS INFECTIONS......Page 32
4. ANTIVIRAL DRUGS......Page 37
5. VIRUS VACCINES......Page 53
6. ENTEROVIRUSES: POLIOVIRUSES, COXSACKIEVIRUSES, ECHOVIRUSES AND NEWER ENTEROVIRUSES......Page 61
7. POLIOVIRUSES......Page 63
8. COXSACKIEVIRUSES, ECHOVIRUSES AND ENTEROVIRUSES 29–34 AND 68–71......Page 70
9. RHINOVIRUSES AND CORONAVIRUSES......Page 76
10. INFLUENZAVIRUSES......Page 82
11. PARAINFLUENZAVIRUSES......Page 89
12. MUMPS VIRUS......Page 95
13. RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS (RSV)......Page 102
14. MEASLES VIRUS......Page 109
15. RUBELLA VIRUS......Page 116
16. ADENOVIRUSES......Page 123
17. ROTAVIRUSES......Page 130
18. HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS (HSV1 AND HSV2)......Page 136
19. VARICELLA-ZOSTER VIRUS (VZV)—VARICELLA......Page 145
20. VARICELLA-ZOSTER VIRUS (VZV)—ZOSTER......Page 152
21. CYTOMEGALOVIRUS (CMV)......Page 156
22. EPSTEIN–BARR VIRUS (EBV)......Page 163
23. HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 6 (HHV-6)......Page 172
24. HEPATITIS A VIRUS......Page 178
25. HEPATITIS B VIRUS......Page 184
26. HEPATITIS C VIRUS......Page 190
27. HEPATITIS D VIRUS......Page 196
28. HEPATITIS E VIRUS......Page 199
29. EMERGING HEPATITIS VIRUSES......Page 204
30. PARVOVIRUS B19......Page 206
31. RETROVIRUSES......Page 212
32. HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS (HIV)......Page 215
33. HUMAN T-CELL LYMPHOTROPIC VIRUS TYPE I AND II......Page 222
34. TICK-BORNE ENCEPHALITIS (TBE) VIRUS......Page 227
35. HANTAVIRUSES—HFRS and HPS......Page 235
36. HAEMORRHAGIC FEVER VIRUSES......Page 241
37. RABIES VIRUS......Page 245
38. HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS (HPV)......Page 251
39. HUMAN POLYOMAVIRUSES......Page 258
40. SLOW VIRUSES......Page 262
41. POXVIRUSES......Page 266
42. CLINICAL SYNDROMES......Page 270
Index......Page 275