Regulation of apoptosis by viruses that infect insects
Orthobunyviruses and alphaviruses cause encephalitis, neuronal apoptosis and mortality in mammals, but fail to kill the mosquitoes that transmit these viruses. Therefore, host cell factors, as well as viral factors, regulate the outcome of infection. Dros
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Emergence and Control of Zoonotic Viral Encephalitides
Springer-Verlag Wien GmbH
Prof. Charles H. Calisher Arthropod-borne and Infectious Diseases Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, U.S.A. Prof. Diane E. Griffin Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, U.S.A.
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© 2004 Springer-Verlag Wien Originally published by Springer- Verlag Wien New York in 2004
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ISBN 978-3-211-20454-2 ISBN 978-3-7091-0572-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-7091-0572-6 Archives of Virology Suppl 18
Preface From 6-8 April 2003, more than 50 researchers and administrators from more than a dozen countries attended a symposium entitled "Emergence and control of zoonotic viral encephalitis". Held in a convivial setting at Les Pensieres, Veyrier du Lac, near Annecy in the French Alps, this was the fourth in a series of meetings on the emergence and control of infectious diseases organized by the Merieux Foundation. This Special Issue of Archives of Virology presents the papers delivered at this symposium. The general objectives of the meeting were to review the biology of viral encephalitis, the virulence and genetic evolution of encephalitis viruses, and the factors involved in emergence of these diseases. Emergence or reemergence of viruses may be due to virus evolution, to the impact and influence of human popUlations on previously undisturbed ecosystems, or to better recognition. Clearly, if we are to prevent or ameliorate treatment of these diseases we must understand the basic mechanisms by which these viruses emerge or reemerge and cause illnesses. Methods for detection of infections caused by neurotropic viruses and for detection of the viruses or their genome sequences are available and improving and methods for detection of antibody have improved; all are clinically- and epidemiologically-relevant. Examples of relatively recently recognized viruses causing encephalitis
