Published January, 2009
By Matteo Santin
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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Gra- ally, the scientific and clinical communities have understood that replacement could be improved by materials able to interact with the tissues and to parti- pate in their metabolism and functions.

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Published January, 2009
By Ilaria Capua, Dennis J. Alexander, Joseph Domenech, Bernard Vallat and Illaria Capua
Publisher: Springer (Springer Verlag)
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Avian Influenza (AI) and Newcastle Disease (ND) are two devastating diseases of poultry, which cause losses to the poultry industry and influence the liveability of rural communities worldwide.

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Published January, 2009
By Edward Schwartz
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Microbiology Monographs
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Megaplasmids are extrachromosomal genetic elements in the size range of 100 kb and larger. Microbial Megaplasmids reviews our knowledge of the extensively studied representatives. It also presents snapshots of more recently discovered megaplasmids.

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Published December, 2008
By I.W. Fong
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Emerging Infectious Diseases of the 21st Century
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In this edition of the Emerging Infectious Diseases of the 21st Century Series, the editor reviews the research, diagnosis, and treatment of some common infections facing researchers, clinicians and family physicians such as sinusitis, otitis media and pertussis in adults.

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Published December, 2008
By Steven L. Percival
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
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This edited volume contains a collection of reviews that highlight the significance of, and the crucial role, that microorganisms play in the human life cycle and considers the microbiology of the host in different regions of the body during the aging process.

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Published December, 2008
By Xiaochun Li and Ronghui Xu
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Applied Bioinformatics and Biostatistics in Cancer Research
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Multivariate analysis is a mainstay of statistical tools in the analysis of biomedical data. It concerns with associating data matrices of n rows by p columns, with rows representing samples (or patients) and columns attributes of samples, to some response variables, e.g., patients outcome.

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Published December, 2008
By Hengli Tang
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Methods in Molecular Biology
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When I was ?rst approached by Dr. Hengli Tang about writing the foreword to this book, the second edition of Hepatitis C Virus, I was a little puzzled: Book forewords are penned by persons far more famous than I am.

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Published December, 2008
By Vinayaka R. Prasad, Ganjam V. Kalpana, Ganjam Kalpana and Vinayaka Prasad
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Methods in Molecular Biology
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Despite major advances in HIV treatment, many areas require more study, in order to create efficacious, potent antiretrovirals that can suppress viral load completely and durably without toxic side effects, to define unknown drug targets and fine-tune known targets, and to better understand the interplay between viral and host factors.

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Published December, 2008
By Giovanna Lombardi and Yanira Riffo Vasquez
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology
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With contributions by numerous experts

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Published December, 2008
By Harald Zur Hausen and Ethel-Michele de Villiers
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
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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