Lyssaviruses (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1994)

Lyssaviruses are the etiological agents of rabies, one of the oldest documented and feared maladies in medical history. The last century has been particularly fruitful in regard to progress in Iyssavirus phylogenetic affinities, diagnostics, pathogenesis, molecular virology and epidemiology, pro phylaxis and control. Yet, despite these academic and practical advances in research, the age-old horror evoked by rabies is still very real, with only four documented human recoveries once symptoms are realized. After decades of intense scrutiny and four recent books describing rabies and its viral relatives, there is still much to be learned. The great authority on rabies, Karl Habel, once related an incident of a very distraught elderly woman, who showed symptoms of neurological disease. She told Habel, "I don't need a physician. I know I have rabies. My beloved dog had rabies and died. Look", she exclaimed, while flinging down a goblet of water, "I have hydrophobia". Habel asked for her confinement for psychiatric examination.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag
Country of origin:	Germany
Series:	Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, 187
Release date:	December 2011
First published:	1994
Editors:	Charles E. Rupprecht • Bernhard Dietzschold • Hilary Koprowski
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	352
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1994
ISBN-13:	978-3-642-78492-7
Categories:	Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Pathology > Medical microbiology & virology Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Diseases & disorders > Immunology > General
LSN:	3-642-78492-5
Barcode:	9783642784927

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