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Neutralization of Animal Viruses
N.J. Dimmock
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Description for Neutralization of Animal Viruses
Paperback. Series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology. Num Pages: 156 pages, 14 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: MJCM; MMFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 8. Weight in Grams: 259.
Understanding neutralization is particularly relevant to an appreciation of the interaction between a virus and its antibody-synthesizing host since it is likely that viruses and the antibody system have evolved in response to reciprocally imposed selective pressures. Neutralization of viruses which only infect non-antibody-synthesizing hosts, while of considerable interest from of points of view is de facto without any such evolutionary signifi a number cance. In this second category are viruses of plants, invertebrates, vertebrates below fish in the evolutionary scale which do not synthesize antibody and most bacteria. Viruses of organisms parasitic on or commensal with antibody synthesizing vertebrates, ... Read more
Understanding neutralization is particularly relevant to an appreciation of the interaction between a virus and its antibody-synthesizing host since it is likely that viruses and the antibody system have evolved in response to reciprocally imposed selective pressures. Neutralization of viruses which only infect non-antibody-synthesizing hosts, while of considerable interest from of points of view is de facto without any such evolutionary signifi a number cance. In this second category are viruses of plants, invertebrates, vertebrates below fish in the evolutionary scale which do not synthesize antibody and most bacteria. Viruses of organisms parasitic on or commensal with antibody synthesizing vertebrates, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Number of pages
156
Condition
New
Series
Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology
Number of Pages
149
Place of Publication
Berlin, Germany
ISBN
9783642778513
SKU
V9783642778513
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