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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Understanding viruses</title>
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    <namePart>Shors, Teri.</namePart>
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    <place>
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    <publisher>Jones and Bartlett Publishers</publisher>
    <dateIssued>c2009</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc">2009</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>xxiv, 639 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps (chiefly col.) ; 28 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Introduction to viruses -- Eukaryotic molecular biology and host cell constraints -- Virus replication cycles -- Virus architecture and nomenclature -- Laboratory diagnosis of viral diseases -- Mechanisms of viral entry and spread of infection in the body -- Host resistance to viral infections -- Epidemiology -- The history of medicine, clinical trials, gene therapy, and xenotransplantation -- Viruses and cancer -- Poliovirus and other enteroviruses -- Influenza viruses -- Rabies -- Poxviruses -- Herpesviruses -- Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) -- Hepatitis viruses -- New viruses and viruses that are reemerging -- What about prions and viroids? -- Plant viruses -- The best for last: bacteriophages.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Teri Shors.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and index.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Virus diseases</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Viruses</topic>
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    <topic>Viruses</topic>
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  <subject authority="mesh">
    <topic>Virus Diseases</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">RC114.5 .S46 2009</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">0763729329 (alk. paper)</identifier>
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