VIRAL PATHOGENESIS AND IMMUNITY, second edition

Neal Nathanson and 11 co-authors. Academic Press, London, May, 2007, 266 pages.

This text is an introduction to viral pathogenesis in 17 chapters that
covers the following topics: the sequential events in viral infection, the
dissemination of virus in the host, the variety of cellular responses to
infection, the innate and acquired immune responses to infection,
viral-induced immunopathology and immunosuppression, persistent viruses, the
virulence of viruses, oncogenic viruses, host susceptibility to viral
infection, HIV and AIDS, emerging viral diseases, antiviral therapy, and
viral vaccines. This is the only text devoted exclusively to viral
pathogenesis, and is designed for professional and graduate students in
medical sciences, virology, immunology, or pathology, and all researchers
and clinicians who deal with the mechanisms of viral disease.

This book is used as the text in the Penn course, CAMB 618, Viral
pathogenesis.