Simian Virology is the first text to comprehensively cover all currently known simian viruses.

Chapters provide an overview of nonhuman primate models of medically important viral diseases as well as natural infections of nonhuman primates with human and animal viruses.

The text covers a variety of topics including:

• primate models of medically important viral diseases such as AIDS
• hypotheses on the origins of epidemic forms of HIV
• viral diseases caused by non-simian viruses in both wild and captive primates

Contents

Part I: Introduction to Primatology and Virology

1. Classification of Nonhuman Primates
2. Principles of Virology

Part II: Simian Viruses and Nonhuman Primate Models of Viral Infections

3. Lentiviruses in Their Natural Hosts
4. Lentivirus AIDS Models
5. Origins of Epidemic Forms HIV-1 and HIV-2
6. Betaretroviruses
7. Gammaretroviruses
8. Deltaretroviruses
9. Spumaviruses
10. Picornaviruses
11. Arteriviruses
12. Simplexviruses
13. Varicelloviruses
14. Cytomegaloviruses
15. Lymphocryptoviruses
16. Rhadinoviruses
17. Parvoviruses
18. Polyomaviruses
19. Papillomaviruses
20. Hepadnaviruses
21. Adenoviruses
22. Miscellaneous Viruses
23. Experimental Infection of Nonhuman Primates with Viruses of Medical Importance
24. Natural Infection of Nonhuman Primates with Nonsimian Viruses

Index

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