Herpesviruses and Immunity

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Medveczky, Peter G. (Editor), Friedman, Herman. (Editor), Bendinelli, Mauro. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2002.
• Series: Infectious Agents and Pathogenesis,
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Immunology.; Allergy.; Infectious diseases.; Animal anatomy.; Life Sciences.; Animal Anatomy / Morphology / Histology.; Infectious Diseases.; Allergology.
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Although virology and immunology are now considered separate disciplines, history shows that these areas ofinvestigation always overlapped and one cannot really exist without the other. This trend has become particularly significant and fruitful in the past few years in the area of herpesvirus resea...

Table of Contents:

• Evasion and Obstruction
• Immunopathology of Herpesvirus Infections
• HSV Gene Expression during Latent Infection and Reactivation
• T Cell Activation and Lymphokine Induction in Herpesvirus saimiri Immortalized Cells
• KaposiỚ"s Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus (KSHV/HHV8) and the Etiology of KS
• Immunobiology of Murine Gamma Herpesvirus-68
• EBV and B Cell Lymphomas
• Immune Responses to Epstein-Barr Viral Infection
• EBV Persistence in Vivo
• Epstein-Barr Virus Vaccines
• Inhibition of MHC Class I Function by Cytomegalovirus
• Cell-Mediated Immunity against Varicella-Zoster Virus
• Complement Control Proteins of Rhadinoviruses.