Defense Against Biological Attacks: Volume II

✍ Scribed by Sunit K. Singh, Jens H. Kuhn

Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Year: 2019
Tongue: English
Leaves: 388
Edition: 1st ed.
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This second volume of a two-volume set focuses on specific pathogens and their mechanisms of pathogenesis as well as diagnostics, therapeutics and various strategies in the event of biological attacks. This multidisciplinary book appeals to readers from various fields, including biodefense, biosafety & biosecurity, virology, neurology, molecular biology and genetic engineering, as well as infectious disease specialists. Further, the work is of interest to basic science and applied science research scholars and experts working in the area of high-consequence or select agent virology.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii
Neurotropic Viruses (Michael R. Holbrook)....Pages 1-20
Overview of Human Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers (James Logue, Martin Richter, Reed F. Johnson, Jens H. Kuhn, Wade Weaver)....Pages 21-54
Variola Virus: Clinical, Molecular, and Bioterrorism Perspectives (Shane D. Falcinelli, Justine Ciric, Jason Kindrachuk)....Pages 55-102
Viral Therapeutics (Martin Richter)....Pages 103-114
Challenges Associated with Bacillus anthracis as a Bio-threat Agent (Haim Levy, Itai Glinert, Assa Sittner, Amir Ben-Shmuel, Elad Bar-David, David Kobiler et al.)....Pages 115-137
Brucella: Potential Biothreat Agent (Mehmet Doganay, Gizem Dinler-Doganay, Aysegul Ulu-Kilic, Rebecca J. Ingram)....Pages 139-159
Burkholderia mallei and Glanders (Nittaya Khakhum, Daniel Tapia, Alfredo G. Torres)....Pages 161-183
Burkholderia pseudomallei (Kathryn J. Pflughoeft, Derrick Hau, Peter Thorkildson, David P. AuCoin)....Pages 185-211
Coxiella burnetii: Hiding in Plain Sight (Patrice Newton, Miku Kuba, Bhavna Padmanabhan, Eleanor A. Latomanski, Hayley J. Newton)....Pages 213-238
Francisella tularensis: Causative Agent of Tularemia and Biothreat Agent (Monique Barel, Alain Charbit)....Pages 239-250
Yersinia pestis (Minoarisora Rajerison, Thomas Kratz)....Pages 251-269
Bacterial Therapeutics (Martin Richter)....Pages 271-280
Advances in Molecular Diagnostic Approaches for Biothreat Agents (Meghana Rastogi, Sunit K. Singh)....Pages 281-310
Next Generation Sequencing for the Detection of Foodborne Microbial Pathogens (Travis G. Wentz, Lijun Hu, Thomas S. Hammack, Eric W. Brown, Shashi K. Sharma, Marc W. Allard)....Pages 311-337
Overview on the Systematics of Biotoxins as Threat Agents (Harald Striegl)....Pages 339-357
Agrobioterrorism (Lawrence F. Roberge)....Pages 359-383

✦ Subjects

Biomedicine; Medical Microbiology; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention; Infectious Diseases

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