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Manual of Security Sensitive Microbes and Toxins
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Security sensitive microbes (viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites) and toxins, which are often referred to as the select agents and toxins, have the capacity to cause serious illness and death in humans, animals, and plants.This book is an authoritative and comprehensive review of security sensitive microbes (viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites) and toxins, with an emphasis on the state of the art in the field. Written by experts in the field, the chapters present authoritative reviews, each one covering a single microbe or toxin with respect to its classification, biology, epidemiology, pathogenesis, identification, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. The chapters also discuss the limitations of our current knowledge and challenges relating to improved detection and control of the microbe or toxin.
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Infectious DiseasesTable of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Editor
- Contributors
- Chapter 1 Introductory Remarks
- Chapter 2 Arenaviruses
- Chapter 3 Avian Influenza Virus (Highly Pathogenic)
- Chapter 4 Cercopithecine herpesvirus 1 (B Virus)
- Chapter 5 Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus
- Chapter 6 Eastern Equine Encephalitis Virus
- Chapter 7 Filoviruses
- Chapter 8 Hantaviruses
- Chapter 9 Henipaviruses
- Chapter 10 Human Immunodeficiency Virus
- Chapter 11 Influenza Virus (Reconstructed 1918 Influenza Virus)
- Chapter 12 Japanese Encephalitis Virus
- Chapter 13 Kyasanur Forest Disease Virus
- Chapter 14 Lyssaviruses
- Chapter 15 Menangle Virus
- Chapter 16 Monkeypox Virus
- Chapter 17 Omsk Hemorrhagic Fever Virus
- Chapter 18 Rift Valley Fever Virus
- Chapter 19 SARS Coronavirus
- Chapter 20 Tick-Borne Encephalitis Viruses
- Chapter 21 Variola Viruses
- Chapter 22 Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis Virus
- Chapter 23 Yellow Fever Virus
- Chapter 24 Bacillus anthracis
- Chapter 25 Brucella (B. abortus, B. melitensis, and B. suis)
- Chapter 26 Burkholderia (B. mallei and B. pseudomallei)
- Chapter 27 Chlamydophila (Chlamydia) psittaci
- Chapter 28 Clostridium (C. botulinum and C. perfringens)
- Chapter 29 Coxiella burnetii
- Chapter 30 Escherichia coli O157:H7
- Chapter 31 Francisella tularensis
- Chapter 32 Rickettsia
- Chapter 33 Salmonella Typhi
- Chapter 34 Shigella
- Chapter 35 Vibrio cholerae
- Chapter 36 Yersinia pestis
- Chapter 37 Coccidioides (C. posadasii and C. immitis)
- Chapter 38 Cryptosporidium
- Chapter 39 Abrin
- Chapter 40 Botulinum Neurotoxins from Clostridium botulinum
- Chapter 41 Conotoxins
- Chapter 42 Clostridium perfringens Epsilon Toxin
- Chapter 43 Ricin Toxin
- Chapter 44 Saxitoxin and Related Paralytic Shellfish Poisons
- Chapter 45 Shiga Toxin and Shiga-Like Ribosome-Inactivating Proteins
- Chapter 46 Staphylococcal Enterotoxins
- Chapter 47 T-2, HT-2, and Diacetoxyscirpenol Toxins from Fusarium
- Chapter 48 Tetrodotoxin
- Chapter 49 African Horse Sickness Virus
- Chapter 50 African Swine Fever Virus
- Chapter 51 Akabane Virus
- Chapter 52 Bluetongue Virus
- Chapter 53 Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy Agent
- Chapter 54 Camelpox Virus
- Chapter 55 Capripoxviruses
- Chapter 56 Classical Swine Fever Virus
- Chapter 57 Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus
- Chapter 58 Lumpy Skin Disease Virus
- Chapter 59 Malignant Catarrhal Fever Virus (Alcelaphine Herpesvirus Type 1)
- Chapter 60 Newcastle Disease Virus
- Chapter 61 Peste des Petits Ruminants Virus
- Chapter 62 Rinderpest Virus
- Chapter 63 Swine Vesicular Disease Virus
- Chapter 64 Vesicular Stomatitis Virus
- Chapter 65 Ehrlichia ruminantium
- Chapter 66 Mycoplasma mycoides subsp. mycoides and Mycoplasma capricolum subsp. capripneumoniae
- Chapter 67 Rathayibacter toxicus
- Chapter 68 Candidatus Liberibacter
- Chapter 69 Peronosclerospora philippinensis and Related Species
- Chapter 70 Phoma glycinicola
- Chapter 71 Ralstonia solanacearum Race 3, Biovar 2
- Chapter 72 Sclerophthora rayssiae var. zeae
- Chapter 73 Synchytrium endobioticum
- Chapter 74 Xanthomonas oryzae
- Chapter 75 Xylella fastidiosa
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