This latest edition of the classic text includes new and greatly revised chapters on laboratory methods in epidemiology, human herpesvirus types 6 and 7, parvovirus, and retroviruses. The book covers the principles and approaches to the study of viral infections in human populations, major virus classes of medical and public health importance, and neoplastic and other slowly developing diseases due to viral infection.

from a review of the Third Edition `A valuable source of information....offers an important and unique perspective.' The New England Journal of Medicine

Inhalt
Concepts and Methods: Epidemiologic Concepts and Methods (R.A. Kaslow et al.). Laboratory Methods (R.L. Atmar, J.A. Englund). Surveillance and Seroepidemiology (R.A. Kaslow, A.S. Evans). Acute Viral Infections: Adenoviruses (H. Foy). African Hemorrhagic Fever Virus (R.E. Shope). Arboviruses (R.E. Shope). Arenaviruses (P. Jahrling). Viral Infections and Malignant Diseases: EpsteinBarr Virus and Malignant Lymphomas (N. Mueller, A.S. Evans). Epstein-Barr Virus and Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma (G. de Thè). Hepatitis Viruses and Hepatocellular Carcinoma (J.L. Melnick). Human Papilloma Viruses and Cervical Carcinoma (M.H. Schiffman, R.D. Burk). Viral Infections and Other Chronic Diseases: Viruses and Chronic Neurologic Diseases (C.J. Gibbs). 22 additional articles. Index.