The Species Issue in Virology

Advances in Hepatitis B Research: From Virology to Clinical Management (A Special Issue)

Editorial Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is one of the major human health problems worldwide. It is estimated that chronic HBV infection affects more than 350 million people globally, spreading in every continent in Asia, America, Europe, and Africa. Despite the huge number of HBV infected cases, it has not received enough attention as it should be in term of research funding and media cover...

Virology in the Next Millennium

and so the strategy utilized to prevent liver cancer caused by HBV will surely be applied to other cancers in the twenty-first century. Viruses were first inferred to exist by the diseases they Over the past 40 years viruses have played a central caused. Although disease manifestations like rabies, role in our present-day understanding of DNA structure paralytic poliomyelitis, smallpox, and mea...

Virology

This volume of the Handbook of Behavioral Neurobiology contains a wealth of information on the neural control of movement. Overall, the approach of the authors is to stress basic experimental data. Therefore, the book will be an excellent reference source for basic scientists as well as clinicians. The first chapters of the book examine the role of muscle in movement. These chapters discuss rec...

Virology.

Virology in the 21st century.

V iruses and viral diseases have been at the center of science, agriculture, and medicine for millennia, and some of our greatest challenges and triumphs have involved virology. Smallpox is a prime example. This greatest killer of humankind changed the course of history during the European conquest of the New World and is also the only disease ever eradicated. This remarkable achievement began ...