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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

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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:

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

Specialized sources

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

Selected electronic sources

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