Published December, 2010
By M.D. Cooper, Hilary Koprowski and H. Koprowski
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Cell surface receptors on natural killer (NK) cells have been shown to sense microbial invasion in neighboring cells, thereby setting into motion their elimination by cy totoxic mechanisms.

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Published December, 2010
By Dennis R. Burton
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Antibodies are central to vaccines and it is becoming increasingly apparent that understanding how antibodies combat viruses could be crucial in a new era of vaccine development. This book describes the state of the art in explaining the anti-viral activity of antibodies at the molecular level, with chapters from many of the leaders in the field.

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Published December, 2010
By J. Hacker, J.B. Kaper and James Kaper
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It has been known for a number of years that not only pathogenicity islands but also plasmids and bacteriophages are able to carry genes whose products are involved in pathogenic processes.

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Published December, 2010
By T.M. Koehler and Theresa Koehler
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Bacillus anthracis causes anthrax in all mammals, including humans. The continuing worldwide incidence of anthrax in animal populations, the risk of human infection associated with animal outbreaks, and the threat of use of B.

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Published December, 2010
By Jurgen A.. Richt, Bernhard Dietzschold, B. Dietzschold and J.A. Richt
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In spite of the protection of the CNS there are situations where immune responses occur due to different disease processes. While antigen-specific cells of the adaptive immune response are not normally functional in the CNS tissue, CNS resident cells respond to infection or insult.

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Published December, 2010
By Walter Doerfler, Petra Bohm and Petra Boehm
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After three volumes on adenoviruses in 1995 the past years have seen rapid progress in the field of adenovirus research. Moreover, adenoviruses have attracted considerable interest as vectors in gene transfer regimens.

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Published December, 2010
By David A. Harris
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Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) has become the most publicly recognizable example of a group of fatal neurodegenerative diseases caused by proteinaceous infectious particles called prions.

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Published December, 2010
By Yoshihiro Kawaoka
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Negative-strand RNA viruses, so named because of the polarity of their genomic RNA to mRNA, include important human and non-human pathogens.

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Published November, 2010
By Paula M. Pitha
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A vital text for researchers and clinicians in the fields of virology and oncology alike, this book is a comprehensive guide to one of medicine's most important tools that covers the most recent research. Important insights have been made in recent months that are challenging the accepted concept of the critical role of dsRNA in IFN induction.

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Published November, 2010
By Branch D. Moody
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There is increasing evidence that the CD1 system has been conserved throughout mammalian evolution and is capable of presenting structurally diverse diacyglycerol, sphingolipid, polyisoprenol and lipopeptide antigens.

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