Genetic Susceptibility to Infectious Diseases
ISBN13: 9780195174908ISBN10: 0195174909
Hardback,
464 pages
Feb 2008,
In Stock
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$99.99 (05)Description
Infectious diseases are commonly regarded as a distinct category, with different causes and patterns than chronic or genetic disease. But in fact there are many varieties of genetic susceptibility to infection, the subject of this book, which will be divided into three sections: 1) concepts and methods, 2) genes and pathophysiologic mechanisms, and 3) infectious agents and diseases. No currently plubished text on either genetics or infectious diseases focuses on the genetic aspects of the special relationship between host and pathogen in the way envisioned for Section 1. No other work on the selected genes regulating immunity deals as systematically with the sequence variation/function relationships most pertinent to infection as planned for Section 2. And no other book gives as meaningful a picture of how these genes operate in infectious disease as Section 3 will.Product Details
464 pages; 41 b/w line illus.; 7 x 10; ISBN13: 978-0-19-517490-8ISBN10: 0-19-517490-9About the Author(s)
Edited by Richard A. Kaslow, M.D., Professor of Epidemiology and International Health, Medicine, and Microbiology, University of Alabama, Janet McNicholl, M.D., Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Adrian V. S. Hill, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford
