| Yu-Mei Wen, graduated from Shanghai First Medical College, China, was a WHO Fellow at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK, and was a Fogarty FelIow at Hepatitis Viruses Section, Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, NlAID, National lnstitutes of Health, Bethesda,USA. Her main research interest is in molecular virology and immunology of hepatitis B virus, and published 210 articIes in journals home and abroad. She has been teaching virology to medical students for more than 30 years, and this book is written to stimulate original thinking in her students.
Philip P Mortimer, former director of the Virus Reference Division of the Public Health Laboratory Service, UK. His main interest have been in blood borne viruses and in the application of technical advances in viraI diagnosis to clinical and public health problems. He has published 150 original articles and reviews in peer reviewed journals. Jia-you Zhang, associate professor at the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics,University of Kentucky, USA. Awarded PhD by the University of Texas at Austin. He was a postdoctoraI fellow under the tutorship of late Prof. Temin at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he estabIished a model for formation of a transducing retrovirus by non-homologous recombination.His main interest is in retroviraI recombination. He has published papers in Science, Molecular CelluIar Biology and the Journal of Virology. |
| Table of Contents Chapter 1 Is a virus just a packet of genes? Chapter 2 Viruses and host cells -- Are they interdependent? Chapter 3 Persistent virus infection -- a favorabIe balance or not? Chapter 4 Why are there so many types of intederons? Chapter 5 Viral oncogenesis -- an unexpected outcome of virus infection Chapter 6 Antiviral drug deveIopment -- hopes and disappointments Chapter 7 Vaccines -- an outstanding success Chapter 8 Prions -- a challenge to dogma Chapter 9 Why is virus nomenclature important? Chapter 10 RNA viruses 10. 1 Influenza virus -- an example of virus mutations l0. 2 Enteroviruses -- multiple Organ-targeting l0. 3 Hantaan virus -- immunopathogenesis l0. 4 Flaviviruses -- the old and the new comes Chapter 11 RNA-DNA intermediate viruses 11. 1 Human immunodeficiency -- a current plague 11. 2 Hepatitis B virus -- a virus of great concern Chapter 12 DNA viruses l2. 1 Herpes viruses and viral latency l2. 2 Human papilloma viruses -- potetial for oncogenesis l2. 3 Adenovirus -- dual roles as a pathogen and a gene theray vector l2. 4 Poxviruses -- alert against bioterrorism |
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