Published May, 2013
By Rafi Ahmed and Tasuku Honjo
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Series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology
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Adaptive immune responses serve as a key defense mechanism for the control of infections in vertebrates. Immune responses must be of sufficient strength to contain invading pathogens, antigen specific responses require regulatory mechanisms to ensure termination or downmodulation to avoid excessive damage to the host tissue.

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Published May, 2013
By Jurgen A.. Richt, Richard John Webby, Juergen Richt and Richard J. Webby
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Series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology
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From the first detailed clinical description of the disease in the Midwestern United States in 1918, to the isolation of the causative agent, the first of any influenza virus, in 1930 to its role in the genesis of the 2009 human pandemic, swine have played a central role in the ecology of influenza.

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Published April, 2013
By Ulrich Dobrindt, Jorg H. Hacker, Catharina Svanborg and Joerg H. Hacker
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This comprehensive, interdisciplinary book covers different aspects of relevant human pathogens and commensals.

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Published April, 2013
By Ellen Heber-Katz and David L. Stocum
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Series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology
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They present eleven reviews that cover a wide range of topics, from wound repair and its relationship to regeneration, through systems including lenticular, neural, and musculoskeletal tissues and limbs, to epigenetics and the role of the cell cycle.

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Published March, 2013
By G. Singh Chhatwal
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Streptococci are Gram-positive bacteria that cause a wide spectrum of diseases, such as pharyngitis, necrotizing fasciitis and streptococcal toxic shock syndrome, as well as rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease as sequelae.

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Published March, 2013
By Ralf Bartenschlager
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Series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology
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Hepatitis C virus (HCV), a major causative agent of chronic liver disease, is spread throughout the world and around 170 million people are persistently infected.

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Published February, 2013
By David Fry and Lyubomir Vassilev
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In this volume, the editors have collected the knowledgeable insights of a number of leaders in this field - researchers who have achieved success in addressing the difficult problem of inhibiting protein-protein interactions.

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Published January, 2013
By Peter K. Vogt and Andrew O. Jackson
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The nine chapters presented in this book provide contemporary reviews of research on defective RNAs, satellite RNA viruses, and dependent RNA viruses that require the presence of a helper virus in order to establish productive infections.

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Published January, 2013
By Robert L. Coffman and Sergio Romagnani
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Published January, 2013
By Michael G. Katze
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First, systems biology is an inter-disciplinary approach, requiring the combined talents of biologists, mathematicians, and computer scientists. Second, systems biology is holistic, with the goal of obtaining a comprehensive understanding of the workings of biological systems.

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