J. Langhorne (Ed.) 2005 Malaria is still a major global health problem, killing more than one million people every year. Almost all of these deaths are caused by Plasmodium falciparum, one of the four species of malaria parasites infecting humans. This high burden of mortality falls heavily on sub-Saharan Africa, where over 90% of these deaths are thought to […]
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Edited by ELKE BOGNER ANDREAS HOLZENBURG 2006
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Edited by C. Jane Welsh Mary W. Meagher Esther M. Sternberg 2006 Susceptibility to infections and autoimmunity is profoundly affected by neural and neuroendocrine factors that in turn mediate the psychological status of the organism. Physiological stressors have provided one important experimental approach to investigate the interactive bidirectional communication between the immune and nervous systems.
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James E. Childs John S. Mackenzie Jürgen A. Richt (Eds.) 2007
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Edited by Jingwu Zhang 2007 This book critically reviews both clinical and immunological aspects of autoimmune disease with a strong emphasis on multiple sclerosis (MS). Research in MS is one of the fastest-developing areas in modern medicine.
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S. Kartikeyan R.N. Bharmal R.P. Tiwari P.S. Bisen 2007 In June 1981, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the first evidence of a new disease that would later become known as acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Since then, there has been an explosion of information, and volumes have been written on the clinical aspects, virology, immunology, pharmacology, therapeutics, […]
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Edited by K. Darwin Murrell and Bernard Fried 2007 Fish and Plant-Borne Parasites Humans suffer from numerous parasitic foodborne zoonoses, many of which are caused by helminths. The helminth zoonoses of concern in this book are normally limited to diseases of animals that have now become transmissible to humans.
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Edited by Jacqueline D. Reeves and Cynthia A. Derdeyn 2007 The entry of HIV into cellular targets is mediated by the envelope protein (Env) which studs the viral surface. A major milestone for inhibition of HIV entry was achieved in 2003 with the approval of the HIV fusion inhibitor enfuvirtide.
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Edited by Janos Minarovits Eva Gonczol Tibor Valyi-Nagy 2007 Latency is a most remarkable property of herpesviruses that ensures the maintenance of their genetic information in their hosts for an extended period in the absence of productive replication. Members of all three herpesvirus subfamilies infecting a wide variety of target cells are able to establish latent infection, which is […]
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Stanley A. Plotkin Editor 2011
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