Fields Virology: Fundamentals

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Fields Virology, in its seventh edition, is a comprehensive reference book on virology, covering virus biology, replication, and medical aspects of specific virus families. It is edited by Drs. Peter Howley and David M. Knipe and includes chapters on virus structures, essential viral functions, immune responses, epidemiology, diagnostics, and therapies. The eBook is updated regularly with new information. This text is essential for virologists, infectious disease specialists, microbiologists, and physicians, as well as undergraduate and graduate students interested in virology.

Format: Hardback
Length: 667 pages
Publication date: 25 July 2023
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Health

Fields Virology, now available in four convenient volumes, remains the most authoritative reference in this rapidly evolving field, offering comprehensive coverage of virology, encompassing virus biology, replication, and medical aspects of specific virus families. This seventh edition of Fields Virology: Fundamentals, edited by Drs. Peter Howley and David M. Knipe, along with volume associate editors Drs. Lynn Enquist, Jeffrey I. Cohen, Eric O. Freed, Blossom A. Damania, and Sean P. J. Whelan, focuses on the fundamental principles of virology and reflects recent advancements in this dynamic field.

Bundled with the eBook, which will be regularly updated with new information about each virus, this text serves as the authoritative and up-to-date reference book for virologists, infectious disease specialists, microbiologists, and physicians, as well as undergraduate and graduate students interested in virology.

The book includes chapters on virus structures, essential viral functions, immune responses to viral infections, viral epidemiology, viral diagnostics, and viral therapies. Up-to-date discussions of antiviral therapies and vaccine strategies are also included.

Featuring more than 300 full-color illustrations, including key figures for use as lecture slides, the book provides quick and flexible access to current information in both print and an improved eBook format.

The book discusses virus structure, virus entry, replication, and assembly, virus-host cell interactions, host immune responses and vaccines, antiviral therapeutics, viral persistence and latency for HIV, and mechanisms of viral oncogenesis for HPV, KSHV, and the hepatotropic viruses.

Newly revised Fields Virology volumes, available in print and eBook format:

• Emerging Viruses
• DNA Viruses
• RNA Viruses

Weight: 2019g
Dimension: 276 x 213 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781975112516
Edition number: 7 ed