A Practical Guide to Clinical Virology [Hardcover]

This new Edition of A Practical Guide to Clinical Virology has been thoroughly updated and is a practical, highly illustrated, quick reference guide to clinical virology. It brings together the essentials of the subject in a entertaining and informative style, describing in turn the clinical features, the symptoms and signs of each of the viral diseases, as well as summarising the epidemiology, laboratory diagnosis and therapy in each case. This book also includes general chapters such as classification, diagnosis of infection, antiviral drugs, vaccines and different clinical syndromes.

Features include:

• chapter summaries for quick reference
• Cartoon illustrations

• Human Herpes Virus 6
• Hepatitis C
• Hepatitis E
• Emerging Viruses
• Polyoma viruses
• Comprehensive coverage
• Clear and concise format

Each chapter is easy to read and well organised, ensuring that this is an invaluable textbook for all medical, biomedical, microbiology and applied biology students. In addition, it will provide an excellent reference for nurses, occupational health and infection control departments, public health and diagnostic laboratories.

Contributors ix

Preface xi

Preface to 1st Edition xiii

Abbreviations xv

References for Further Reading xvii

1 Classification and Nomenclature of Human and Animal Viruses 1
Y. Ghendon

2 Viruses and Disease 7
G. Haukenes and J. R. Pattison

3 Laboratory Diagnosis of Virus Infections 15lÃ]