Microorganisms and bioterrorism

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Bibliographic Details
Group Author: Anderson Burt; Friedman Herman 1931-; Bendinelli Mauro
Published: Springer,
Publisher Address: New York, NY
Publication Dates: c2006.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Infectious agents and pathogenesis
Subjects:
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 --