Published January, 2014
By Larry J. Anderson and Barney S. Graham
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology
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Although respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) has been a high priority for vaccine development for over 50 years now, still no vaccine is available and none has yet demonstrated sufficient promise to move to licensure.

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Published December, 2013
By David Grove
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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An extraordinary range of infectious agents affect humans, from worms, arthopods, and fungi to bacteria, viruses, and prions. Looking at the curious nature of each, David I. Grove explores their life history, the people who discovered them, and how they were identified, in this fascinating exploration of infections around the globe.

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Published December, 2013
By Nima Rezaei and Ahmad Massoud
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
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The rapidity of scientific progress over the last few years guarantees the utility of this new collection of state-of-the-art reviews on the immunology of aging, which is the result of extensive collaboration of more than sixty of the greatest thinkers and scholars in the field, in cooperation with a number of junior colleagues.

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Published December, 2013
By Simone Caccio, Giovanni Widmer and Simone M. Cacciò
Publisher: Springer (Springer Verlag GmbH)
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This new volume on Cryptosporidium and Cryptosporidiosis discusses all relevant aspects of the biology, molecular biology, host-parasite interaction, epidemiology as well as diagnosis and treatment of these widespread parasites. A section on practical lab procedures discusses step-by-step guidelines for sample preparation and lab procedures.

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Published December, 2013
By Peter Daszak, John S. MacKenzie, Jurgen A.. Richt, Martyn Jeggo, Juergen Richt, Peter S. Daszak and Juergen A. Richt
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology
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One Health is an emerging concept that aims to bring together human, animal, and environmental health. In the 19th and early 20th centuries this was not the case-then researchers like Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch and physicians like William Osler and Rudolph Virchow crossed the boundaries between animal and human health.

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Published December, 2013
By Andre Santos, Marta Branquinha, Catia Sodre, Claudia d'Avila-Levy, Lucimar Kneipp, André L.S. Santos, Marta H. Branquinha, Claudia M. d’Avila-Levy, Lucimar F. Kneipp and Cátia L. Sodré
Publisher: Springer
Series: Subcellular Biochemistry
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Published December, 2013
By D.T. Hart
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Nato Science Series A:
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Published December, 2013
By Perry N. Halkitis and Perry Halkitis
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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The AIDS Generation: Stories of Survival and Resilience takes readers on the real-life journeys of gay men who were infected with HIV as young men and have survived to enter middle age. The book examines the tumultuous life paths of these men and the strategies they used to survive the epidemic.

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Published December, 2013
By Uday Kishore and Annapurna Nayak
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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The book starts with dissecting mechanisms underlying viral immune evasion via exploiting the host complement system by vaccinia virus, and by modulating the type 1 interferon response by RNA viruses.

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Published December, 2013
By V. Sree Hari Rao, Ravi Durvasula and Vadrevu Sree Hari Rao
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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Though great advances in public health are witnessed world over in recent years, infectious diseases, besides insect vector-borne infectious diseases remain a leading cause of morbidity and mortality.

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