Published September, 2011
By Mark von Itzstein and Mark Itzstein
Publisher: Springer (Birkhauser Verlag AG)
Series: Milestones in Drug Therapy
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Following an overview of the influenza virus, the haemagglutinin, the interactions with the cell receptors and the enzymology of virus sialidase, recent results in drug design are presented.

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Published September, 2011
By Serge Morand, Francois Beaudeau and Jacques Cabaret
Publisher: Springer
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Molecular epidemiology has recently broaden its focuses due to the development of molecular tools but also by incorporating advances of other fields such as mathematical epidemiology, molecular ecology, population genetics and evolution.

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Published September, 2011
By Karl Maramorosch, Frederick Murphy, Aaron J. Shatkin and Frederick A. Murphy
Publisher: Elsevier (Academic Press Inc)
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Covers a range of reviews providing an overview of the field of virology. This title informs on the various developments in the field.

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Published September, 2011
By Rangasamy Jayakumar, M. Prabaharan and Riccardo A. A. Muzzarelli
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Advances in Polymer Science
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Chitosan and Chitosan Derivatives in Drug Delivery and Tissue Engineering, by R. Chitosan: A Promising Biomaterial for Tissue Engineering Scaffolds, by P. Use of Chitosan as a Bioactive Implant Coating for Bone-Implant Applications, by M. Production, Properties and Applications of Fungal Cell Wall Polysaccharides: Chitosan and Glucan, by N.

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Published August, 2011
By Gholamreza Darai and Christian Tidona
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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The steady growth of knowledge on viruses makes it difficult to retrieve comprehensive and accurate data. This encyclopedia presents the latest facts about all known virus in a standardized form created by hundreds of the world's leading virologists.

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Published August, 2011
By Alfredo Cesario and Frederick Marcus
Publisher: Springer
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This teaching monograph on systems approaches to cancer research and clinical applications provides a unique synthesis, by world-class scientists and doctors, of laboratory, computational, and clinical methods, thereby establishing the foundations for major advances not possible with current methods.

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Published August, 2011
By Stephen P. Denyer, Norman A. Hodges, Sean P. Gorman, Brendan F. Gilmore and SP Denyer
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd (Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd))
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This respected textbook focuses on the multifaceted area of overlap between the major sciences of microbiology and pharmacy. This eighth edition closely places renewed emphasis on infection control and the growing area of prescribing therapeutics.

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Published August, 2011
By Heinz Mehlhorn
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Parasitology Research Monographs
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Therefore this book, published on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the German Society of Parasitology, compiles 18 reviews on recent "hot topics," including a new vaccine against malarial parasites;

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Published August, 2011
By Hans-Curt Flemming, Jost Wingender and Ulrich Szewzyk
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Springer Series on Biofilms
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Living in biofilms is the common way of life of microorganisms, transiently immobilized in their matrix of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS), interacting in many ways and using the matrix as an external digestion and protection system.

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Published August, 2011
By Alita A. Miller and Paul F. Miller
Publisher: Elsevier (Caister Academic Press)
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