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Advances in Virus Research de Karl Maramorosch

Advances in Virus Research: Advances in Virus Research, cartea 89

Editat de Karl Maramorosch, Frederick A. Murphy
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 25 apr 2014

Descoperim în acest volum studii de caz avansate care redefinesc strategiile de imunizare, precum utilizarea platformelor vegetale pentru dezvoltarea unor vaccinuri inovatoare și cu costuri reduse în regiunea mediteraneană. Reținem, de asemenea, analiza riguroasă a interacțiunilor dintre mediu și vectori în transmiterea biologică a arbovirusurilor prin țânțari, o problemă de sănătate publică cu implicații globale. Structura volumului 85 din Advances in Virus Research este organizată tematic pentru a acoperi atât patologia animală, cât și pe cea vegetală, trecând de la evoluția genomului parvovirusurilor la creveții marini până la mecanismele complexe de transmisie circulatorie, descrise metaforic ca o orchestră de instrumente derivate din virus, insectă și plantă.

Această ediție completează perspectiva oferită de Environmental Virology and Virus Ecology de Carolyn M. Malmstrom, adăugând o dimensiune aplicată asupra vaccinologiei și a patogenilor specifici animalelor sălbatice și domestice, în timp ce volumul ulterior se concentrează mai mult pe ecologia spațială și metagenomică. În contextul operei editorului Karl Maramorosch, acest volum reprezintă apogeul unei cariere dedicate cercetării sistematice, spre deosebire de lucrarea sa autobiografică The Thorny Road to Success, care explorează parcursul său personal și academic. Recomandăm acest titlu editat de ELSEVIER SCIENCE pentru profunzimea recenziilor critice realizate de autorități în domeniu, menținând standardul celei mai longevive serii de profil din lume. Progresia capitolelor permite o tranziție fluidă de la virologia moleculară la studii de teren, oferind o viziune de ansamblu esențială pentru specialiștii în boli infecțioase și patologi.

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ISBN-13: 9780128001721
ISBN-10: 0128001720
Pagini: 292
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.62 kg
Editura: ELSEVIER SCIENCE
Seria Advances in Virus Research

Public țintă

Professional virologists, from professors to graduate students, microbiologists and infectious diseases specialists.

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm acest volum virologilor și cercetătorilor care au nevoie de o fundamentare teoretică solidă cu aplicații practice imediate. Cititorul câștigă acces la analize detaliate despre vaccinurile vegetale și transmiterea arbovirusurilor, domenii critice pentru biotehnologia modernă. Este o resursă indispensabilă pentru bibliotecile academice, oferind o sinteză a celor mai recente descoperiri în mecanismele de transmitere virală și evoluția genomică.

Despre autor

Karl Maramorosch a fost un virolog și entomolog de renume mondial, recunoscut pentru contribuțiile sale fundamentale în studiul virusurilor transmise prin insecte. Născut în Viena în 1915 și stabilit temporar în România în 1939 după ce a fugit din Polonia, Maramorosch și-a dedicat cariera editării seriei Advances in Virus Research, transformând-o într-un reper academic. Experiența sa vastă în cercetarea fundamentală este dublată de o perspectivă umanistă asupra științei, documentată în scrierile sale biografice, unde descrie provocările parcursului său profesional și personal.

Descriere scurtă

The first review series in virology and published since 1953, Advances in Virus Research covers a diverse range of in-depth reviews, providing a valuable overview of the field. The series of eclectic volumes are valuable resources to virologists, microbiologists, immunologists, molecular biologists, pathologists, and plant researchers.
Volume 89 features articles on topics including plant-based vaccines, transmission of arthropod-borne viruses by mosquitoes, arboviruses in domestic and wild animals, and more.


  • Contributions from leading authorities
  • Comprehensive reviews for general and specialist use
  • First and longest-running review series in virology

Cuprins

  1. Plant-Based Vaccines: Novel and Low-Cost Possible Route for Mediterranean Innovative Vaccination Strategies
    Aboul-Ata E. Aboul-Ata, Antonella Vitti, Maria Nuzzaci, Ahmad K. El-Attar, Giuseppina Piazzolla, Cosimo Tortorella, Ali M. Harandi, Olof Olson, Sandra A. Wright and Pasquale Piazzolla
  2. The Role of Environmental, Virological and Vector Interactions in Dictating Biological Transmission of Arthropod-Borne Viruses by Mosquitoes
    Joan L. Kenney and Aaron C. Brault
  3. Biology, Genome Organization and Evolution of Parvoviruses in Marine Shrimp
    Arun K. Dhar, Refugio Robles-Sikisaka, Vanvimon Saksmerprome, Dilip K. Lakshman and Timothy W. Flegel
  4. Circulative, “Nonpropagative” Virus Transmission: An Orchestra of Virus, Insect and Plant Derived Instruments
    Stewart Gray, Michelle Cilia and Murad Ghanim
  5. Arboviruses Pathogenic for Domestic and Wild Animals
    Zdenek Hubálek, Ivo Rudolf and Norbert Nowotny

Recenzii

"A mandatory purchase for all types of comprehensive libraries, both public and university, as well as for those interested in or doing research in the field of virology." --Military Medicine

"This serial...is well known to virologists. It is a valuable aid in maintaining an overview of various facets of the rapidly expanding fields of virology...Timely, informative, and useful to the student, teacher, and research scientist." --American Scientist

Notă biografică

Karl Maramorosch, Ph.D., is the Robert L. Starkey Professor of Microbiology and Professor Emeritus of Entomology at Rutgers -The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey. Dr. Maramorosch, a native of Vienna, Austria, grew up in Poland and graduated from SGGW, the Agricultural University of Warsaw. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from Columbia University. His scientific career began at Rockefeller University where he spent twelve years working on plant viruses and insect vectors. Later, he became Program Director of Virology and Insect Physiology at the Boyce Thompson Institute. Since 1974, he has served as a Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University. Among his many scientific discoveries was the seminal first finding that certain plant pathogens multiply not only in plants but also in specific invertebrate animal vectors. Professor Maramorosch is a Fellow, former Recording Secretary and Vice-President of the New York Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the American Association for Advancement of Science and of the American Phytopathological Society, a Fellow and Honorary Member of the Entomological Society of America, Honorary Fellow of the Indian Virological Society, a Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, a member of the Leopoldina Academy, the Society for In Vitro Biology, the American Society for Virology, the Microscopy Society, the International Organization for Mycoplasmology, the Society for Invertebrate Pathology and of other professional organizations. He won the 1980 Wolf Prize in Agriculture and numerous other awards and honors, including the Jurzykowski Award in Biology, AIBS Award of Distinction, the Waksman Award, AAAS Campbell Award, the 2012 SGGW Award of Distinction and others. He has held short-term assignments from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Agency for International Development, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and Ford Foundation in Mexico, India, Kenya, and Philippines. Dr. Maramorosch has edited more than 90 volumes on viruses, vectors, plant diseases, invertebrate cell culture, and is the author or co-author of more than 800 research papers. His major interests include comparative virology, invertebrate cell culture, parasitology, diseases caused by spirochetes, viroids, phytoplasmas, spiroplasmas and emerging plant pathogens. He is an active participant in biotechnology studies and is involved in many international scientific cooperation activities. In Dr. Maramorosch's long and distinguished career he has served twice as visiting Fulbright Professor in Yugoslavia and as a visiting professor in China, U.S.S.R., the Netherlands, Germany Poland, Romania, Japan and India. Frederick A. Murphy, DVM, PhD, is professor, Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), Galveston. He holds a BS and DVM from Cornell University and a PhD from the University of California, Davis (UC Davis). Formerly he was dean and distinguished professor, School of Veterinary Medicine, and distinguished professor, School of Medicine, UC Davis. Before that he served as director of the National Center for Infectious Diseases, and director of the Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and is a member of the German National Academy of Sciences and the Belgian Royal Academy of Medicine. He holds an honorary Doctor of Medicine and Surgery from the University of Turku, Finland; an honorary Doctor of Science from the University of Guelph, Canada; an honorary Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from the University of London, United Kingdom; an honorary Doctor of Science from University College Dublin, Ireland; the Presidential Rank Award of the U.S. Government; the PennVet World Leadership Award from the University of Pennsylvania, and the Distinguished Microbiologist Award from the American College of Veterinary Microbiologists. At UTMB, he is a member of the Institute for Human Infections and Immunity, Center for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases, Galveston National Laboratory, and McLaughlin Endowment for Infection and Immunity. His professional interests include the pathology and epidemiology of highly pathogenic viruses/viral diseases: rabies and the rabies-like viruses, arboviruses, hemorrhagic fever viruses, and other neurotropic viruses. He has been a leader in advancing the concepts of "new and emerging infectious diseases" and "new and emerging zoonoses" and "the threat posed by bioterrorism." Most recently, he has been working on Internet resources on the history of virology: "The Foundations of Virology" at http://www.utmb.edu/virusimages/.

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Published since 1953, Advances in Virus Research covers a diverse range of in-depth reviews providing a valuable overview of the current field of virology.

Key features: * Contributions from leading authorities * Informs and updates on all the latest developments in the field