Published August, 2014
By Heinz Mehlhorn
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Parasitology Research Monographs
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This book discusses the transmission of agents of disease (prions, viruses, bacteria, fungi and parasites) by means of vectors belonging to licking or blood-sucking arthropods including mites, ticks and insects that live near or among humans and their houses.

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Published August, 2014
By Joan Stein-Streilein
Publisher: Springer (Springer Basel)
Series: Birkhäuser Advances in Infectious Diseases
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This volume highlights the mechanisms leading to immune privilege in tissues and organs, the deviation of immune responses and the modification of the behavior of the immune cells that manage to cross the blood barriers of tissues, in the context of infection.

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Published August, 2014
By Charles N. Haas, Joan B. Rose, Charles P. Gerba and CN Haas
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd (John Wiley & Sons Inc)
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Provides QMRA methodologies to determine infection risk cause by either accidental microbial infections or deliberate infections caused by terrorism. This title reviews methodologies to quantify at every step of the microbial exposure pathways, from the first release of a pathogen to the actual human infection.

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Published August, 2014
By Milton W. Taylor
Publisher: Springer (Springer International Publishing AG)
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Milton Taylor, Indiana University, offers an easy-to-read and fascinating text describing the impact of viruses on human society. Furthermore, the use of viruses for the treatment of cancer (viral oncolysis or virotherapy) and bacterial diseases (phage therapy) and as vectors in gene therapy is discussed in detail.

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Published August, 2014
By Georges N. Cohen and G. N. Cohen
Publisher: Springer
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Published July, 2014
By Mary Ann McDowell and Sima Rafati
Publisher: Springer (Springer Verlag GmbH)
Series: Neglected Tropical Diseases
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The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is highly endemic for several neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), including viral, bacterial, protozoan and helminth infections. This new volume covers the most prevalent NTDs found in about 22 MENA countries emphasizing the disease burden, clinical manifestations and control approaches.

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Published July, 2014
By Albrecht Bindereif
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Nucleic Acids and Molecular Biology
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This volume covers the most important aspects of biosynthesis, processing, and functions of RNA in trypanosomes, ranging from transcription to RNA editing, mRNA splicing/translation/turnover, processing of transfer and ribosomal RNA, RNA interference, and current transcriptome-wide analyses.

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Published July, 2014
By Robert Yarchoan
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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The association between AIDS and cancer was recognized from the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, when the appearance of Kaposi sarcoma in a cluster of young men was one of the first signs of this new disease.

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Published July, 2014
By Mark Lyte and John F. Cryan
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology / Microbial Endocrinology
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The field of microbial endocrinology is expressly devoted to understanding the mechanisms by which the microbiota (bacteria within the microbiome) interact with the host ("us").

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Published July, 2014
By Maria G. Piacentini, Charles C. Cui, Maria Piacentini and Charles Cui
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
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With globalisation taking centre stage in the business world and multiculturalism affecting markets and societies, there is a need to understand the ways that customers respond to the changing marketplace from both international and multicultural perspectives. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Marketing Management.

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