| Details | | Publication Date: | 1996-01-01 | | Series: | Infectious Agents and Pathogenesis | | Editor: | Giuseppe Barbanti-Brodano, Herman Friedman Ph.D., Mauro Bendinelli |
| Size | | Length: | 428 pages | | Height: | 9.5 in | | Width: | 6.5 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 27.2 oz |
Industry Reviews Assesses the current knowledge of dna tumor viruses by reviewing animal models, mechanisms of transformation, association with human tumors, and possibilities of prevention and control by vaccination. Among the topics, two animal herpesviruses inducing lymphoproliferative diseases, Marek's disease virus and Herpesvirus saimiri , are presented as models of lymphomas associated with human herpesviruses, Epstein-Barr virus, and human herpesvirus 6; and two chapters are devoted to humoral and cell-mediated immunity to human papillomaviruses and Epstein-Barr virus in relation to vaccine design and other possibilities of immunologic control of the associated tumors. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or. SciTech Book News (06/01/1996)
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