Now in four convenient volumes, Field’s Virology remains the most authoritative reference in this fast-changing field, providing definitive coverage of virology, including virus biology as well as replication and medical aspects of specific virus families. This volume of Field’s Virology: DNA Viruses, Seventh Edition covers the latest information on DNA viruses, how they cause disease, including cancer, how they persist in the body in a latent form, reactivate and spread, new therapeutics and vaccine approaches, as provided in new or extensively revised chapters that reflect these advances in this dynamic field.  Bundled with the eBook, which will be updated regularly as new information about each virus is available, this text serves as the authoritative, up-to-date reference book for virologists, infectious disease specialists, microbiologists, and physicians, as well as medical students pursuing a career in infectious diseases.  Covers both basic science and medical features of each virus, emphasizing viruses of medical importance and interest, while also including other viruses in specific cases where more is known about their mechanisms of replication or pathogenesis.   Covers viruses that cause human cancer such as human papillomaviruses (HPV), Epstein Barr Virus, the Merkel Cell Polyomavirus and hepatitis B virus, and viruses like the herpesviruses that persist in a latent form and can reactivate and cause acute and/or chronic disease.  Features more than 400 full-color illustrations, including key figures for use as lecture slides.  Provides quick, flexible access to current information both in print and in an improved eBook format.  Discusses virus structure, virus entry, replication, and assembly, virus-host cell interactions, host immune responses and vaccines, antiviral therapeutics, viral persistence and latency and viruses as tools for gene therapy and vectors for vaccination.   New and forthcoming Field’s Virology volumes, available in print and eBook format:  • Emerging Viruses  • DNA Viruses  • RNA Viruses  • Fundamental Viruses    Enrich Your eBook Reading Experience  Read directly on your preferred device(s), such as computer, tablet, or smartphone.  Easily convert to audiobook, powering your content with natural language text-to-speech. 

Virus de ADN es el segundo volumen de la 7.a edicion de Fields. Virologia, la referencia de mayor autoridad en el tan cambiante mundo contemporaneo de la virologia. Esta edicion cubre la informacion mas reciente sobre los virus de ADN, la fisiopatologia de los padecimientos que causan, como persisten en el cuerpo en forma latente, se reactivan y se propagan, y los nuevos enfoques terapeuticos y de vacunas. Ademas, brinda una cobertura amplia que incluye la biologia de los virus, su replicacion y los aspectos clinicos de familias especificas de virus. Su contenido abarca todos los virus de ADN de importancia medica, incluidos los que infectan a los seres humanos y a los animales. Ademas, se plantean varias cuestiones tematicas al examinar los virus de ADN. La organizacion de los capitulos de esta edicion es similar a las anteriores, es decir, la mayoria de los virus se presenta en un unico capitulo que combina los aspectos basicos y clinicos de este. Para otros, la virologia basica relacionada con la replicacion y la patogenesis viricas se divide en dos capitulos. Esta 7. edicion de Fields. Virologia. Virus de ADN presentada a todo color, con multiples ilustraciones clinicas, figuras y tablas, esta dirigida a estudiantes y profesionales de la virologia, enfermedades infecciosas, microbiologia, medicina interna, familiar, epidemiologia, investigadores, inmunologos y otros profesionales en contacto con pacientes con enfermedades de origen viral.