Published December, 2009
By Andrew W. Artenstein
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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Vaccines: A Biography seeks to fill a void in the extant literature by focusing on the history of vaccines and in so doing, recounts the social, cultural, and scientific history of vaccines;

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Published December, 2009
By Vitali Sintchenko
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There are several reasons to be interested in infectious disease informatics. This field is rapidly expanding, and attracts a wide audience of clinicians, public health professionals, biomedical researchers and computer scientists who are fascinated by the complex puzzle of infectious disease.

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Published December, 2009
By Margit Pavelka and Jurgen Roth
Publisher: Springer (Springer Verlag GmbH)
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Along with a detailed insight into the complex structure and organization of cells and tissues, this second edition of the atlas also highlights specific cellular and tissue functions, as well as providing the dynamics of diverse intracellular processes.

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Published December, 2009
By Paul Spearman and Eric O. Freed
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology
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The study of viruses necessarily involves dissecting the intimate details of cellular pathways. Viruses have often been employed as tools in studying cellular pathways, as was done by early retrovirologists such as Peyton Rous in attempting to understand the mechanism of cellular transformation and oncogenesis.

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Published December, 2009
By Adam Finn, Andrew J. Pollard and Nigel Curtis
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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This book examines various aspects of paediatric infectious diseases. Each chapter is based on a lecture given at the sixth "Infection and Immunity in Children" course, held at the end of June 2008 at Keble College, Oxford.

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Published December, 2009
By Christopher Li
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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Breast cancer remains a disease of considerable public health importance worldwide, with over 800,000 new cases diagnosed globally each year.

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Published November, 2009
By Alessandro Comaru Pasqualotto
Publisher: Springer
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Aspergillosis is an infection that mostly affects the respiratory system but can involve any other system in the body. This book examines the current state of the art in the prevention, diagnosis, therapy and management of all forms of aspergillosis.

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Published October, 2009
By Chihiro Sasakawa
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology
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Clearly, an in-depth study of bacterial infectious strategies, as well as the host cellular and immune responses, presented in each chapter of this book will provide further insight into the critical roles of the host innate and adaptive immune systems and their importance in determining the severity or completely preventing infectious diseases.

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Published October, 2009
By Christon J. Hurst
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Pathogenic microorganisms exploit a number of different routes for transmission and this book demonstrates how the spread of disease can be prevented through the practices of disinfection and controlling microbial growth.

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Published October, 2009
By Alan L. Rothman
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology
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Scientific research on dengue has a long and rich history. Dengue and dengue hemorrhagic fever, which assumed pandemic proportions during the latter half of the last century, have shown no indication of slowing their growth during this first decade of the twenty-first century.

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