Microorganisms and bioterrorism
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Group Author: | ; ; |
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Published: |
Springer,
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Publisher Address: | New York, NY |
Publication Dates: | c2006. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
Series: |
Infectious agents and pathogenesis |
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Carrier Form: | xx, 240 p.: ill. ; 25 cm. |
ISBN: |
0387281568 9780387281568 |
Index Number: | D815 |
CLC: | D815.5-05 |
Call Number: | D815.5-05/M626 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references. 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 -- |