Neurotropic Viral Infections Volume 1: Neurotropic RNA Viruses
This second edition is a comprehensive study of the viruses that affect the brain and the central nervous system. Along with a focus on the viruses themselves, it addresses the diseases they cause, current treatments and preventive measures. Also dis
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Neurotropic Viral Infections Volume 1: Neurotropic RNA Viruses Second Edition
Neurotropic Viral Infections
Carol Shoshkes Reiss Editor
Neurotropic Viral Infections Volume 1: Neurotropic RNA Viruses Second Edition
Editor Carol Shoshkes Reiss Departments of Biology and Neural Science New York University New York, NY, USA
1st edition was published by Cambridge University Press in 2008. ISBN 978-3-319-33131-7 ISBN 978-3-319-33133-1 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-33133-1
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Preface
This is one of two books that comprise a total of 29 cutting-edge review articles written by leaders in the basic or clinical and translational fields working on viruses that infect the central nervous system (CNS). Book 1 focuses on those pathogens with an RNA genome. Book 2 includes chapters on retroviruses, DNA viruses, prions, immunity, transmission, and beneficial uses of neurotropic viruses. In this first volume are 14 chapters on neurotropic or neuroinvasive RNA viruses that are human pathogens. Viruses capable of infecting the cells within the brain can be spread to people by many routes including ingestion (for instance, polio, chapter “Poliovirus”), the respiratory route (one example is measles, chapter “Measles Virus and Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis”), and insect (Japanese encephalitis virus is spread by mosquitoes, chapter “Japanese Encephalitis Virus: Molecular Biology to Pathology”) or animal (bats can transmit rabies, chapter “Measles Virus and Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis”) bites. Some viruses cause CNS disease in a small subset of people infected, and this may be due to many factors including variants in host genes, underlying chronic health conditions, or mutations
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