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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780434203321

Titolo

Live variola virus [[electronic resource] ] : considerations for continuing research / / Committee on the Assessment of Future Scientific Needs for Live Variola Virus; Board on Global Health ; Ann M. Arvin and Deepali M. Patel, editors ; Institute of Medicine of the National Academies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : National Academies Press, 2009

ISBN

1-282-41256-6

9786612412561

0-309-13691-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (170 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ArvinAnn M

PatelDeepali

Disciplina

616.912

Soggetti

Smallpox - Research

Smallpox - Prevention

Smallpox vaccine

Virology - Cultures and culture media

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Reviewers""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""Summary""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Overview of Smallpox and Its Surveillance and Control""; ""3 Comparative Poxvirology""; ""4 Animal Models Using Variola and Other Orthopoxviruses""; ""5 Genomic Analysis""; ""6 Development of Therapeutics""; ""7 Development of Vaccines""; ""8 Methods for Detection and Diagnosis""; ""9 Discovery Research""; ""10 Conclusions and Recommendations""; ""Appendix: Variola Strains Used to Validate Diagnostic and Detection Assays""