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Viral Infections of Humans: Epidemiology and Control(Two Volume Set) [Paperback]

Alfred S. Evans (Editor), Richard A. Kaslow (Editor)

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ISBN-10: 0306448564 | ISBN-13: 978-0306448560 | Publication Date: January 15, 1997 | Edition: 4th

This latest edition of the classic text includes new and greatly revised chapters on laboratory methods in epidemiology, human herpesvirus types 6 and 7, parvovirus, and retroviruses. The book covers the principles and approaches to the study of viral infections in human populations, major virus classes of medical and public health importance, and neoplastic and other slowly developing diseases due to viral infection.

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Paperback: 1078 pages
Publisher: Springer; 4th edition (January 15, 1997)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0306448564
ISBN-13: 978-0306448560
Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.5 x 2.1 inches
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The epidemiology of infectious diseases is concerned with the circumstances under which both infection and disease occur in a population and the factors that influence their frequency, spread, and distribution. Read the first page

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cytomegalovims infection, core transmission group, nongenital cutaneous, coronaviruslike particles, other viral antibodies, virulent wild polioviruses, nationwide serum survey, other respiratory agents, clinical infectious mononucleosis, clinical mumps, human rotavirus serotypes, lameness surveys, live attenuated mumps virus vaccine, virus watch program, rotavirus illness, hemolysin test, serological epidemiology, nonblack patients, prechallenge serum, trivalent parainfluenza virus vaccine, immune adherence hemagglutination assay, new enterovirus, virulent polioviruses, epidemic behavior, uncharacterized types

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New York, Immune Defic, Hong Kong, South America, Cancer Res, Raven Press, United Kingdom, North America, Plenum Press, Academic Press, Historical Background, Cold Spring Harbor, San Francisco, Marcel Dekker, Suggested Reading, Yale University, New World, Chapel Hill, World War, New Haven, Ivory Coast, Virus Res, Sierra Leone, Methodology Involved, Rift Valley

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