Synopses & Reviews
Viral hemorrhagic fevers (VHFs) are a group of illnesses that are caused by several distinct families of viruses. While some types of hemorrhagic fever viruses can cause relatively mild illnesses, many of these viruses cause severe life-threatening disease. Some examples include: Lassa fever, Marburg virus, Ebola virus, Bolivian haemorrhagic fever, Korean hemorrhagic fever, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever and Dengue hemorrhagic fever.
No current treatment can cure viral hemorrhagic fevers, and immunizations exist for only two (yellow fever and Argentine hemorrhagic fever) of the many VHFs. Researchers are working to develop other vaccines, but in the meantime, the best approach is prevention.
This volume will provide a review of what is known to date on these virus families as well as highlighting recent advances and future needs.
Key features:
* Provides comprehensive overview of what is known to date, recent advances and future needs
* Examines transmission and risk factors
* Highlights what has been done to help in outbreak control
* Discusses the need for vaccines and antivirals
Synopsis
Viruses are a huge threat to agriculture. In the past, viruses used to be controlled using conventional methods, such as crop rotation and destruction of the infected plants, but now there are more novel ways to control them. This volume focuses on topics that must be better understood in order to foster future developments in basic and applied plant virology. These range from virus epidemiology and virus/host co-evolution and the control of vector-mediated transmission through to systems biology investigations of virus-cell interactions. Other chapters cover the current status of signalling in natural resistance and the potential for a revival in the use of cross-protection, as well as future opportunities for the deployment of the under-utilized but highly effective crop protection strategy of pathogen-derived resistance.
Key features:
* Contributions from leading authorities * Informs and updates on all the latest developments in the field
Table of Contents
1. The Co-evolution of plants and viruses: Resistance and pathogenicity
Fernando García-Arenal and Aurora Fraile
2. Assessment of the benefits and risks for engineered virus resistance
Mark Tepfer and Jeremy R. Thompson
3. Signaling in Induced Resistance
John Carr, Mathew G. Lewsey and Peter Palukaitis
4. Global genomics and proteomics approaches to identify host factors as targets to induce resistance against Tomato bushy stunt virus
Peter Nagy and Judit Pogany
5. Resistance to Aphid Vectors of Virus Disease
Jack Westwood and Mark Stevens
6. Cross-protection: A century of mystery
Heiko Ziebell and John Peter Carr