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Viruses: A Very Short Introduction (3rd edition) [#276]
Viruses: A Very Short Introduction (3rd edition) [#276]

Viruses: A Very Short Introduction (3rd edition) [#276]

著者: 
Dorothy H. Crawford
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人類の歴史と切り離すことのできないウィルスの構造や性質、感染経路などの概要、どのように宿主細胞に侵入し乗っ取ろうとするのかなどを簡明に解説します。第3版は特にSARS、MERS、新型コロナウイルス感染症の原因ウイルスの「SARSコロナウイルス2」といったオルトコロナウイルス亜科に着目し、新型コロナウイルス感染症はなぜパンデミックに発展するほど急速に増殖したのかを考察し、驚異的な速さで進んだワクチン開発にも言及します。今後の危機を見据え、有効な対策と管理についても検討します。
   

  • Provides a rounded and concise account of the nature of viruses, how they attack their hosts, and the efforts to control them
  • Considers the viruses behind pandemics past and present
  • Looks to the future and considers the preventative measures and management of future dangerous viruses that are expected to emerge
  • Part of the Very Short Introductions series - over ten million copies sold worldwide

New to this Edition:

  • Fully updated to examine the COVID-19 pandemic and the SARS-CoV-2 virus responsible
  • Explores the recent revolution in vaccine production and the preventative measures and management of future dangerous viruses that are expected to emerge 

Viruses are everywhere, and as the COVID-19 pandemic has shown, cannot be ignored. From their discovery to the unravelling of their intricate structures, this Very Short Introduction provides a rounded and concise account of the nature of viruses, how they attack their hosts, and the efforts to control them.
      
In this new edition, Dorothy H. Crawford examines the recent rise in emerging virus infections, especially coronaviruses, including the viruses behind SARS and MERS, and SARS CoV-2 responsible for COVID-19. Crawford explores why the SARS-CoV-2 was able to spread rapidly to form a pandemic while others have produced more localized epidemics, as well as looking at the revolution in vaccine production that this has caused. Looking to the future, this Very Short Introduction considers the preventative measures and management of future dangerous viruses that are expected to emerge.

目次: 

Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
List of tables

  1. What are the viruses?
  2. Kill or be killed
  3. Emerging virus infections: vertebrate-transmitted viruses
  4. Emerging virus infections: arthropod-transmitted viruses
  5. Emerging virus infections: the coronaviruses
  6. Virus acquisition and eradication
  7. Persistent viruses
  8. Tumour viruses
  9.  Viruses past and future

Glossary
Further reading
Publisher's acknowledgements
Index

著者について: 

Dorothy H. Crawford is Emeritus Professor of Medical Microbiology at the University of Edinburgh. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and of the Academy of Medical Sciences. She was awarded an OBE for services to medicine and higher education in 2005. Dorothy is the author of The Invisible Enemy (OUP, 2000); Deadly Companions (OUP, 2007); Virus Hunt (OUP, 2013); and Ebola (OUP, 2016).

"it is concise enough to read in its entirety in a relatively short period of time..The book has to capture the interest and imagination of the reader and I think that this book succeeds on both of these counts." - Dr Harry Brown, Glyscomedia

商品情報

ISBN : 9780192865069

著者: 
Dorothy H. Crawford
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168 ページ
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Paperback
サイズ
111 x 174 mm
刊行日
2022年10月
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Viruses: A Very Short Introduction (3rd edition) [#276]

Viruses: A Very Short Introduction (3rd edition) [#276]

Viruses: A Very Short Introduction (3rd edition) [#276]