Arctic and Tropical Arboviruses

Edouard Kurstak

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN:
  9780124297654
• eBook ISBN:
  9780323155120
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Evolution
• Index: Biological Sciences

Arctic and Tropical Arboviruses contains the proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Arctic Arboviruses held at Mont Gabriel, Canada on May 26-28, 1977. This book contains a total of 20 chapters; a few of these chapters describe the diseases with arbovirus as a possible etiological agent, such as in the case of nephropatia epidemica, rapid diagnostic techniques for the detection of arboviruses, and in vitro culture methods for arboviruses using arthropod cells. Several other chapters are devoted to the investigations on arboviruses in the northern regions and on their vectors, mosquitoes, and ticks, as well as to the detection in the north of arboviruses originally isolated inthe south. Such bipolar distribution of arboviruses could be the result of the transport of arbovirus-infected ticks by migratory birds. This volume will provide a useful tool for all concerned with viral diseases, including virologists, epidemiologists, and ecologists.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Arctic and Tropical Arboviruses
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Contributors
• Preface
• Chapter 1. Considerations on Arbovirus Infections in Northern Regions
• Chapter 2. Arbovirus Vectors in the Canadian Arctic
• Chapter 3. Arboviruses of High Latitudes in the USSR
• Chapter 4. Arboviruses in Canada
• Chapter 5. Arboviruses in Norway
• Chapter 6. Tick-Borne Viruses of Seabirds
• Chapter 7. Arboviruses in Italy
• Chapter 8. Transmission of Group C Arboviruses (Bunyaviridae)
• Chapter 9. Transovarial Transmission of California Arbovirus Group
• Chapter 10. Vector Competence of Culex tarsalis and Other Mosquito Species for Western Equine Encephalomyelitis Virus
• Chapter 11. Isolation of Eyach Virus from Ixodid Ticks
• Chapter 12. Persistent Tick-Borne Encephalitis Infection in Man and Monkeys: Relation to Chronic Neurologic Disease
• Chapter 13. Nephropathia Epidemica in Finland
• Chapter 14. Phenetic Relationships of Viruses of the Hughes Serological Group
• Chapter 15. The Structure of the Genome of Uukuniemi Virus
• Chapter 16. Replication of Arboviruses in Arthropod in Vitro Systems
• Chapter 17. Susceptibility of a Tick Cell Line (Dermacentor parumapertusNeumann) to Infection with Arboviruses
• Chapter 18. Observations Related to Cytopathic Effect in Aedes albopictus Cells Infected with Sindbis Virus
• Chapter 19. Ecological Markers of Arboviruses
• Chapter 20. Rapid Diagnosis of Arboviral and Related Infections
• Index