RT Book, Section
A1 Carroll, Karen C.
A1 Hobden, Jeffery A.
A1 Miller, Steve
A1 Morse, Stephen A.
A1 Mietzner, Timothy A.
A1 Detrick, Barbara
A1 Mitchell, Thomas G.
A1 McKerrow, James H.
A1 Sakanari, Judy A.
SR Print(0)
ID 1114736642
T1 Herpesviruses
T2 Jawetz, Melnick, & Adelberg’s Medical Microbiology, 27e
YR 2019
FD 2019
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071824989
LK accesspharmacy.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1114736642
RD 2024/04/18
AB The  herpesvirus  family  contains  several  important  human  viral  pathogens.  Clinically,  the  herpesviruses  exhibit  a  wide  spectrum  of  diseases.  Some  have  an  extensive  host-cell  range,  and  others  have  a  narrow  host-cell  range.  The  outstanding  property  of  herpesviruses  is  their  ability  to  establish  lifelong  persistent  infections  in  their  hosts  and  to  undergo  periodic  reactivation.  Their  frequent  reactivation  in  elderly  and  immunosuppressed  patients  causes  serious  health  complications.  Curiously,  the  reactivated  infection  may  be  clinically  quite  different  from  the  disease  caused  by  the  primary  infection.  Herpesviruses  possess  a  large  number  of  genes,  some  of  which  have  proved  to  be  susceptible  to  antiviral  chemotherapy.