Microorganisms and bioterrorism /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Springer,
[2006]
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| Series: | Infectious agents and pathogenesis.
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Table of Contents:
- Biotechnology and the public health response to bioterrorism
- Historical perspectives of microbial bioterrorism
- The infectious disease physician and microbial bioterrorism
- Modulation of innate immunity to protect against biological weapon threat
- Smallpox: pathogenesis and host immune responses relevant to vaccine and therapeutic strategies
- Bacillus anthracis: agent of bioterror and disease
- Tularemia pathogenesis and immunity
- Brucella and bioterrorism
- Pneumonic plague
- Coxiella burnetii, Q fever, and bioterrorism
- Genomic and proteomic approaches against Q fever
- Rickettsia rickettsii and other members of the spotted fever group as potential bioweapons.