Description: Fifteen years is far too long a lag for a second edition of a book in a swiftly moving field. The changes in neurovirology over this time have been remarkable: some could have been anticipated, but some have been unimaginable. Evolution of new enteroviruses and influenza viruses, recovery of new herpesviruses and a human parvovirus, first encounters with zoonotic agents such as hantaviruses and arenaviruses, and wider spread of filoviruses might all have been foreseen. The emergence of human retroviruses as major neuropathogens and the sudden appearance of bovine spongiform encephalopathy and its probable transmission to humans were unforeseeable. Changes in technology have evolved in a similar pattern. Better means to identify and purify nucleic acids and proteins, rapid methods of sequencing, and improved immunocytochemical techniques were expected; but the development and applications of techniques using the polymerase chain reaction challenge the imagination. Who could have anticipated that the tedious methods of virus recovery in animals and cell cultures could be replaced by a rapid method whose greatest drawback is excessive sensitivity or that any method could detect agents that had never been isolated? The first edition contained the statement that the retrovirus
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Number of Pages: 528 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Viral Infections of the Nervous System
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Publication Year: 1998
Subject: Neurology, Infectious Diseases
Features: Revised
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 32.1 Oz
Item Length: 9.1 in
Subject Area: Medical
Author: Richard T. Johnson
Item Width: 5.9 in
Format: Hardcover
