TY - BOOK ID - 125591276 TI - Desk encyclopedia of human and medical virology AU - Mahy, B. W. J. AU - Van Regenmortel, M. H. V. PY - 2010 SN - 1282381784 9786612381782 0123785596 PB - Oxford : Academic, DB - UniCat KW - Medical virology KW - Virus diseases UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:125591276 AB - This volume contains 82 chapters that provide detail and understanding to the fields of human and medical virology. The first section describes general features of common human viruses with specialized chapters related to HIV/AIDS. The volume goes on to describe exotic virus infections, including one now eradicated virus (smallpox) and some now controlled by vaccination such as yellow fever. Concepts of medical virology are further developed with entries on viruses associated with oncogenesis and selections of interest to medical virology. The most comprehensive single-volume ER -