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The Epstein-Barr Virus Softcover Repri Edition
Contributor(s): Epstein, M. A. (Editor), Achong, B. G. (Editor)
ISBN: 3642672388     ISBN-13: 9783642672385
Publisher: Springer
OUR PRICE:   $132.99  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: December 2011
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BISAC Categories:
- Medical | Microbiology
Dewey: 616.019
Physical Information: 0.97" H x 6.69" W x 9.61" (1.68 lbs) 462 pages
 
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The Epstein-Barr virus was discovered 15 years ago. Since that time an immense body of information has been accumu- lated on this agent which has come to assume great signifi- cance in many different fields of biological science. Thus, the virus has very special relevance in human medicine and oncology, in tumor virology, in immunology, and in mole- cular virology, since it is the cause of infectious mononu- cleosis and also the first human cancer virus, etiologically related to endemic Burkitt's lymphoma and probably to nasopharyngeal carcinoma. In addition, continuous human lymphoid cell lines initiated and maintained by the transform- ing function of the virus genome provide a laboratory tool with wide and ever-growing applications. Innumerable papers on the Epstein-Barr virus have ap- peared over recent years and reports of work with this agent now constitute a veritable flood. The present book provides the first and only comprehensive, authoritative over-view of all aspects of the virus by authors who have been the original and major contributors in their particular disciplines. A complete and up-to-date survey of this unique and important agent is thus provided which should be of great interest to experts, teachers, and students engaged in cancer research, virology, immunology, molecular biology, epide- miology, and cell culture. Where topics have been dealt with from more than one of these viewpoints, some inevitable overlap and duplication has resulted; although this has been kept to a minimum, it has been retained in some places because of positive usefulness.