Scoping the Sciences
Virus Diseases
This guide is an introductory list to help locate research materials at the Rowland Medical Library. Viruses, the smallest known infectious agent, can cause diseases ranging from mild to deadly. Viruses cannot reproduce unless they enter a living cell and take over the cell's reproductive mechanism to produce damaging viral components and disease. Viruses can invade all life forms -mammals, birds, reptiles, insects, plants, algae and bacteria. Therefore the transmission of a virus and disease to humans can be complex and variable. Antiviral therapies continue to present challenges and research opportunities.
Guides / Handbooks, encyclopedias, dictionaries / Selected textbooks / More books / Selected journals / More journals / Selected indexes and abstracts / Selected publications/ More reference sources / Specialized sources / Selected electronic sources
Guides
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- White, David O. Medical virology.
- QZ 65 F33 1994
- Topley, W.W.C. Topley & Wilson's microbiology and microbial infections. v.1
- Virology, 9th ed.
REF QW 4 T66 1998
- Morse, Stephen S. (ed.). The evolutionary biology of viruses.
- QW 160 E964 1994
- Joklik, Wolfgang K., et al (eds.). Zinsser microbiology. p.739-1068.
- REF QW 4 Z5 1992
- Stephenson, John R. and Alan Warnes. Diagnostic virology protocols.
- WC 500 D413 1998
- Blair, E. et al. Antiviral therapy
- WC 500 A574 1998
- Adolph, Kenneth W. Viral genome methods.
- QW 160 V472 1996
Handbooks, encyclopedias, dictionaries
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- Granoff, Allan and Robert G.Webster (eds.). Encyclopedia of virology, 2nd ed.
- REF QW 13 E529 1999
- Kohn, George C. (ed.). Encyclopedia of plague and pestilence.
- REF WA 13 E529 1995
- Lederberg, J. (ed.). Encyclopedia of microbiology.
- REF QW 13 M527 1992
- Beran, George W. (ed.). Handbook of zoonoses. Section B: Viral.
- WC 950 C7 1994
- Morse, Stephen S. (ed.). Emerging viruses.
- WC 500 E437 1993
- Porterfield James S. Exotic viral infections.
- WC 503.41 E967 1995
Selected textbooks
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- Dalgleish, Angus and Robin Weiss (eds.). HIV and the new viruses, 2nd ed.
- WC 500 H482 1999
- Mandell, Gerald L. et al (eds.). Mandell, Douglas and Bennett's principles and practice of infectious diseases, 4th ed. v.2, p. 1314-1673.
- REF WC 100.3 P75 1995
- Evans, Alfred S. and Richard A. Kaslow (eds.). Viral infections of humans:epidemiology and control, 4th ed.
- QW 160 V57 1997
- Galasso, George J. et al (eds.). Antiviral agents and human viral diseases. 4th ed.
- WC 500 A57 1997
- Soule, Barbara M. et al. Infections and nursing practice: prevention and control.
- WC 18 S684 1995
- Oldstone, Michael B.A. Viruses, plagues, and history.
- QW 11 O427 1998
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Suggested subject headings: Virus Diseases Viruses Communicable Diseases Disease Outbreaks Antiviral Agents Genome, Viral Biological Warfare Microbiology Oncogenic Viruses
Selected journals
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- Diagnostic microbiology and infectious diseases (e-journal)
Emerging infectious diseases (e-journal)
Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (e-journal)
Journal of clinical virology (e-journal)
Journal of infectious diseases (e-journal)- Journal of medical virology (e-journal)
Science (e-journal)- Scientific American (e-journal)
Weekly epidemiological report
Search RoMeO Public Access Catalog
Suggested subject headings: Virus Diseases - Periodicals Viruses- Periodicals Communicable Diseases - Periodicals Microbiology - Periodicals Mutagens - Periodicals Mutation - Periodicals Disease Outbreaks - Periodicals
Selected indexes and abstracts
For article-level searching, log into the RML web site and select "Electronic Databases" from the drop-down box near the top of the page. For this topic, you might try the following databases:
- Academic Search Premier
- Basic BIOSIS
- Catalog of U.S. Government Publications
- Ebsco Health Source: Consumer Edition
- ERIC
- Index Medicus & MEDLINE Database
- Newspaper Source
Search using keywords: Virus Diseases Emerging Diseases Viruses Viral Diseases Communicable Diseases Infectious Diseases Biological Warfare Virus Mutation Cancer Virus
Selected publications
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- Scientific
- Strausbaugh LJ. Emerging infectious diseases: a challenge to all. American Family Physician. 1997 Jan; 55(1):111-18.
- Colwell RR. Global climate and infectious disease: the cholera paradigm. Science.
- 1996 Dec 20; 274(5295):2025-31.
- Drotman DP. Emerging infectious diseases: a brief biographical heritage. Emerging Infectious Diseases. 1998 Jul-Sep; 4(3):372-3.
- Binder S, et al. Emerging infectious diseases: public health issues for the 21st century. Science. 1999 May 21; 284(5418):1311-3.
Lederberg J. Emerging infections: an evolutionary perspective. Emerging Infectious Diseases. 1998 Jul-Sep; 4(3):366-71.- Besser RE, et al. Escherichia coli 0157:H7 gastroenteritis and hemolytic uremic syndrome: an emerging infectious disease. Annual Review of Medicine. 1999; 50:355-67.
Raoult D. Infectious disease. Return of the plagues. Lancet. 1998 Dec 19-26; 352 (Suppl 4):siv18.
Alleyne GA. Emerging diseases - what now? Emerging Infectious Diseases. 1998 Jul-Sep; 4(3):498-500.- Levin BR, et al. Population biology, evolution, and infectious disease: convergence and synthesis. Science. 1999 Feb 5; 283(5403):806-9.
- Popular
- Watts, S.J. and Sheldon Watts. Epidemics and history: disease, power, and imperialism.
- WA 105 W277 1997
- Ryan, Frank. Virus-X: tracking the new killer plagues: out of the present and into the future. 1st ed.
- CONSUMER HEALTH WA 110 R926 1997
- Horowitz LG. Emerging viruses: AIDS and Ebola: nature, accident, or intentional.
- QW 300 H676 1997
Ezzell C. It came from the deep. Scientific American. 1999 Jun; 280(6):22,24.
Foster KR, et al. The Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic of 1793. Scientific American. 1998 Aug; 279(2):88-93.
Cowley G, et al. Anatomy of an outbreak. Newsweek. 1999 Oct 11; 134(15):76-78.
More reference sources
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- Horsburgh, C. Robert,Jr and Ann Marie Nelson. Pathology of emerging infections.
- WC 100 P273 1997
- Harper, D.R. Molecular virology, 2nd ed.
- QW 160 H276 1998
- Schaechter, Moselio, et al (eds.). Mechanisms of microbial disease.
- QW 700 M424 1998
- Jeffr, D.J. and C.N. Hudson, (eds.). Viral infections in obstetrics and gynecology.
- WP 140 V818 1999
- Dolin, Raphael and Peter F. Wright. Viral infections of the respiratory tract.
- WC 505 V472 1999
- Arrand, J.R. and D.R. Harper, (eds.). Viruses and human cancer.
- QW 166 V478 1998
- National Center for Infectious Diseases, et al. Preventing emerging infectious diseases: a strategy for the 21st century.
- WC 100 748 1998
- Department of Microbiology. 601-984-1743.
- University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson
V.G. Chinchar, PhD vchinchar@microbio.umsmed.edu
- Department of Medicine. Division of Infectious Diseases. 601-984-5560.
- University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson
D. Sullivan, PhD dsullivan@medicine.umsmed.edu
- Epidemic. The World of Infectious Disease. American Museum of Natural History.
- http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/epidemic/
- Anatomy of an Epidemic.
- http://library.thinkquest.org/11170/
- Virus Disease. Karolinska Institute.
- http://www.mic.ki.se/Diseases/index.html
- CDC:National Center for infectious Diseases.
- http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/
- All the Virology on the Web. Tulane University.
- http://www.tulane.edu/~dmsander/garryfavweb.html
- ProMED (Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases). Federation of American Scientists.
- http://www.fas.org/promed/
- Outbreak.
- http://www.outbreak.org/cgi-unreg/dynaserve.exe/index.html
- MedlinePlus (National Library of Medicine) - SARS
- http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/severeacuterespiratorysyndrome.html
Author: Helvi McCall
Copyright 1999 (Rev 2006 by LMYoung)
Reference Department,
Rowland Medical Library,
University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson