Medical Virology 8

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Luis M. de la Maza, Ellena M. Peterson
Springer Science & Business Media, 1989 - 332 pages
Proceedings of an international symposium in San Francisco, September 1988. The 13 papers consider viruses not only as pathogens, but also as models for research on biological processes in higher organisms and as vehicles for carrying out protective or curative therapies. Topics include new approaches to testing for various viruses, the molecular epidemiology of Epstein-Barr virus, prospects for vaccines, and HIV1/AIDS in terms of statistics of the epidemic and interactions with other viruses. Another 45 papers are represented by one-page abstracts. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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NEWER APPROACHES TO PERINATAL HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS TESTING
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LABORATORY TESTS FOR HUMAN TLYMPHOTROPIC VIRUS TYPE I
23
THE ANALYSIS OF IMMUNITY TO SPECIFIC PROTEINS OF HERPES SIMPLEX AND VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS AND ITS CLINICAL AP...
41
INFECTION AND DISEASE
73
MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY OF EPSTEINBARR VIRUS OBTAINED FROM PATIENTS WITH THE CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME
87
INFECTIOUS COMPLICATIONS OF HUMAN RETROVIRUSES AND HUMAN RETROVIRUSES AS INFECTIOUS COMPLICATIONS
105
STATISTICAL ISSUES IN ASSESSING THE AIDS EPIDEMIC
121
HERPESVIRUS TRANSACTIVATION OF HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS TYPE1
135
MECHANISMS OF COXSACKIEVIRUSINDUCED ACUTE MYOCARDITIS IN THE MOUSE
161
ADENOVIRUS GENE PRODUCTS THAT AFFECT HOST IMMUNE MECHANISMS
183
A POSSIBLE APPROACH TO A RHINOVIRUS VACCINE?
213
ANTIVIRAL CYTOTOXIC TLYMPHOCYTES AND VACCINES
239
ABSTRACTS
267
CONTRIBUTORS
315
AUTHOR INDEX
319
SUBJECT INDEX
321

REGULATION OF EXPRESSION OF HIV1 BY VIRAL FACTORS
151

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