Listeria monocytogenes: Pathogenesis and Host Response

Listeria monocytogenes: Pathogenesis and Host Response
by Howard Goldfine (Editor), Hao Shen (Editor)

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* Hardcover: 288 pages
* Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (April 11, 2007)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0387493735

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This volume includes research from the studies at the molecular level on the pathogenesis of Listeria monocytogenes and the response of the host to its infections. During the past twenty years Listeria monocytogenes has emerged as one of the most intensely studied bacterial pathogens. New windows are constantly being opened into the complexity of host cell biology and the interplay of the signals connecting the various cells and organs involved in the host response. As revealed in many of the chapters in this volume, the study of L. monocytogenes has already provided major insights into eukaryotic cell biology.

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AIDS Epidemiology: A Quantitative Approach

AIDS Epidemiology: A Quantitative Approach (Monographs in Epidemiology and Biostatistics ; V. 22)
by Ron Brookmeyer (Author), Mitchell H. Gail (Author)

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* Paperback: 376 pages
* Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (December 21, 1993)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0195076419

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AIDS has appeared in more than 130 countries, and over 100,000 cases of AIDS have been reported in the U.S. alone. More and more, the public will be depending on statisticians to provide answers about the future course of this epidemic. This comprehensive work confronts the problems that are unique to AIDS research and unites them under a single conceptual framework. It focuses on methods for the design and analysis of epidemiologic studies, the natural history of AIDS and the transmission of HIV, methods for tracking and projecting the course of the epidemic, and statistical issues in therapeutic trials. The various methods of monitoring and forecasting this disease receive comprehensive treatment. These methods include back-calculation, which the authors developed; interpretation of survey data on HIV prevalence; mathematical models for HIV transmission; and approaches that combine different types of epidemiological data. Much of this material -- such as a discussion of methods for assessing safety of the blood supply, an evaluation of survey approaches, and methods to project pediatric AIDS incidence -- is not available in any other work.

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