Published December, 2012
By Karen Joy Shaw and Karen Shaw
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Infectious Disease
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The authors' cross-disciplinary approach, with expertise acquired from studying disease-causing viruses, bacteria, fungi, and protozoa, reveals how sequence information from diverse pathogens has uncovered novel targets for drug discovery, antigenic determinants for vaccine development, as well as diagnostic tools.

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Published December, 2012
By H. Fraenkel-Conrat
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Comprehensive Virology
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This comprehensive series, which will comprise some 6000 pages in a total of about 22 volumes, represents a commitment by a large group of active investigators to analyze, digest, and expostulate on the great mass of data relating to viruses, much of which is now amorphous and disjointed, and scattered throughout a wide literature.

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Published December, 2012
By Adam Finn, Andrew J. Pollard and Nigel Curtis
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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Hot Topics in Infection and Immunity IX

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Published December, 2012
By Monica Embers and Monica E. Embers
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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This book explores the many mechanisms by which the most prevalent Spirochetal pathogens persist in a healthy immune-competent host. Among them are the direct and indirect suppression of host immune signals, phase and antigenic variation, escaping recognition by host complement proteins, and seclusion into immune privileged sites.

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Published December, 2012
By Gerald Schochetman, J. Richard George and W.R. Dowdle
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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This second edition of AIDS Testing incorporates the most current thinking on test methodology and interpretation, some of which has changed considerably over the past two years.

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Published December, 2012
By Johnjoe McFadden, Dany J.V. Beste and Andrzej M. Kierzek
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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The book starts with a general introduction into the relevance of systems biology for understanding tuberculosis. The book provides the reader with an account of how the new science of systems biology is providing novel insights into the ancient scourge of tuberculosis.

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Published December, 2012
By Alice Prince
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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In contrast to the substantial literature that focuses upon innate immune signaling in the gut, there is remarkably less known about the response of the airway to bacterial pathogens.

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Published December, 2012
By Cornelia Kasper, Martijn van Griensven, Ralf Portner, Martijn Griensven and Ralf Poertner
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Advances in Biochemical Engineering/Biotechnology
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Alternative Sources of Adult Stem Cells: Human Amniotic Membrane, by S. * Production Process for Stem Cell Based Therapeutic Implants: Expansion of the Production Cell Line and Cultivation of Encapsulated Cells, by C.

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Published November, 2012
By Paul J. Szaniszlo
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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Instead, the ever-increasing volume ofliterature asso ciated with fungal dimorphism and the diversity offungi now recognized to exhibit a type of dimorphism suggest that a volume comprised of con tributions by numerous researchers may be more appropriate.

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Published November, 2012
By Milton J. Schlesinger and Sondra Schlesinger
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: The Viruses
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The publication of this volume of The Viruses entitled The Togaviridae and Flaviviridae comes at an appropriate time. The structure and rep lication strategies of these viruses are now known to be sufficiently di verse to warrant the removal of flaviviruses from the Togaviridae family and establish them as an independent family.

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