Microorganisms and bioterrorism
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Burt Anderson; Herman Friedman; Mauro Bendinelli
- ناشر : New York, NY : Springer
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2006
- شابک / ISBN : 9780387281568
Description
Biotechnology and the public health response to bioterrorism -- Historical perspectives of microbial bioterrorism -- The infectious disease physician and microbial bioterrorism -- Modulation of innate immunity to protect against biological weapon threat -- Smallpox: pathogenesis and host immune responses relevant to vaccine and therapeutic strategies -- Bacillus anthracis: agent of bioterror and disease -- Tularemia pathogenesis and immunity -- Brucella and bioterrorism -- Pneumonic plague -- Coxiella burnetii, Q fever, and bioterrorism -- Genomic and proteomic approaches against Q fever -- Rickettsia rickettsii and other members of the spotted fever group as potential
Aims to bring together information concerning microbes with potential as bioterrorist weapons. This work is useful for microbiologists, including bacteriologists, virologists and mycologists, in academia, government laboratories, and research institutes, public health physicians, researchers and scientist
