Published November, 2010
By Michael B. A. Oldstone, Michael B.A. Oldstone and Diane E. Griffin
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology
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Measles virus, one of the most contagious of all human viruses, has been largely contained by the development and use of a vaccine that was introduced 50 years ago.

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Published November, 2010
By William B. Whitman, Wolfgang Ludwig, Aidan Parte, Noel R. Krieg, Brian P. Hedlund, Bruce J. Paster, James T. Staley, Naomi Ward, Daniel Brown and William Whitman
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Includes a revised taxonomic outline for the phyla Bacteroidetes, Planctomycetes, Chlamydiae, Spirochetes, Fibrobacteres, Fusobacteria, Acidobacteria, Verrucomicrobia, Dictyoglomi, and Gemmatimonadetes based upon the SILVA project as well as a description of more than 153 genera in 29 families. Includes many medically important taxa.

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Published November, 2010
By William B. Whitman, Wolfgang Ludwig, Aidan Parte, Noel R. Krieg, Brian P. Hedlund, Bruce J. Paster, James T. Staley, Naomi Ward, Daniel Brown and William Whitman
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Includes a revised taxonomic outline for the phyla Bacteroidetes, Planctomycetes, Chlamydiae, Spirochetes, Fibrobacteres, Fusobacteria, Acidobacteria, Verrucomicrobia, Dictyoglomi, and Gemmatimonadetes based upon the SILVA project as well as a description of more than 153 genera in 29 families. Includes many medically important taxa.

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Published November, 2010
By K. Darwin Murrell and Bernard Fried
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: World Class Parasites
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Humans suffer from numerous parasitic foodborne zoonoses, many of which are caused by helminths.

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Published November, 2010
By Adam Finn and Andrew J. Pollard
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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This volume covers topics in infectious diseases in children and is intended for Pediatric Infectious Disease trainees, trainers, and all those who manage children with infections. As in previous volumes, the emphasis is on hot topics of clinical relevance delivered by world class speakers.

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Published November, 2010
By Adam Finn and Andrew J. Pollard
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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Fast becoming a key text for pediatricians, this fourth outing for the Hot Topics series is once again culled from lectures given at the annual course on the subject at Keble College, Oxford.

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Published November, 2010
By Tony Romeo
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology
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It opens with chapters that provide the reader with current perspectives on biofilm development, physiology, environmental, and regulatory effects, the role of quorum sensing, and resistance/phenotypic persistence to antimicrobial agents during biofilm growth.

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Published November, 2010
By Friedhelm Meinhardt and Roland Klassen
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Microbiology Monographs
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A book that constitutes the first attempt to comprehensively assemble current knowledge of different types of such elements, highlight recent developments in the field, and challenge the distinction between viruses and linear plasmids.

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Published November, 2010
By Steven Tracy, M. Steven Oberste and Kristen M. Drescher
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology
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At last - a volume that virologists have been waiting for: a fully updated new edition of a major study in a key subject area. The first edition of this work, published in 1997, described the molecular biology of coxsackie B viruses, as well as clinical, epidemiological, and immunological aspects of group B coxsackievirus disease.

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Published November, 2010
By Harald Zur Hausen and Ethel-Michele de Villiers
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Series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology
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It is not unreasonable to suspect that persistence of at least some specific TT virus genotypes may result in some infected individuals in a definable pathogenicity. The authors believe that this volume provides the first hints in support of this view.

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