Simian VirologyISBN: 978-0-8138-2432-1
Hardcover
508 pages
September 2009, Wiley-Blackwell
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- First text to comprehensively cover all currently known simian viruses
- Provides an overview of nonhuman primate models of medically important viral diseases as well as natural infections of nonhuman primates with human and animal viruses
- Introductory chapters cover primate taxonomy, virology basics, and general properties of retroviruses and herpesviruses
- Details the history, classification and structure, pathogenesis and infection, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of simian viruses
- Valuable tool for research virologists, conservationists, primate and zoo veterinarians, and students