Bunyaviridae
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The Bunyaviridae represent an extremely diverse family of viruses,whichuntilrecentlywererelativelypoorlyunderstood. These viruses have become increasingly important in both human and veterinary medicine, and, most recently, bunyaviruses have been recognized as plant pathogens as well. This book attemptsto treat all aspectsof their biology, including their natural history, genetics, virion structure, unusual pathway of intracellular assembly, gene structure and the mechanisms of its expression, antigenicity, and pathogenesis, inasinglevolume. Assuch,itfillsavoid inthe virologyliterature.Thisvol...
The Bunyaviridae represent an extremely diverse family of viruses,whichuntilrecentlywererelativelypoorlyunderstood. These viruses have become increasingly important in both human and veterinary medicine, and, most recently, bunyaviruses have been recognized as plant pathogens as well. This book attemptsto treat all aspectsof their biology, including their natural history, genetics, virion structure, unusual pathway of intracellular assembly, gene structure and the mechanisms of its expression, antigenicity, and pathogenesis, inasinglevolume. Assuch,itfillsavoid inthe virologyliterature.Thisvolumeisalsotimely,asthemolecular descriptionofthisfamilyisnowalmostcomplete. Thereader can expect to find the present state of the art on how bunyavirusesaremaintainedinnature,andhowtheyreplicate and sometimescausedisease. Iwould like tothank myco-contributorsfor the time and efforttheyhaveinvestedtomaketheirchaptersascompleteas possible,and notleastofall,for byand largerespectingthe deadline.Iam alsogratefulto DickCompansforsuggesting this volume and helping to design its contents, and for the manydiscussionsduring hisstayin Geneva. DANIEL KOLAKOFSKY ListofContents C. R. PRINGLE:TheBunyaviridaeandTheirGenetics An Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B.J. BEATYand C. H. CALISHER:Bunyaviridae- Natural History. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 M.J. HEWLETTand W. CHIU:Virion Structure . . 79 R. M. ELLIOTT, C. S. SCHMALJOHN.and M. S. COLLETT: BunyaviridaeGenomeStructureandGeneExpression 91 D. KOLAKOFSKYand D. HACKER: BunyavirusRNA Synthesis: GenomeTranscriptionand Replication. 143 Y. MATSUOKA, S. Y. CHEN,and R. W. COMPANS: BunyavirusProteinTransportandAssembly. 161 L. KINGSFORD:AntigenicVariance. . . . . . . . 181 F.GONZALEZ-SCARANO,M. J. ENDRES.and N. NATHANSON: Pathogenesis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... 217 ListofContributors BEATY, B. J.... 27 HACKER. D.... 143 CALISHER, C. H.. 27 HEWLETT, M. J. 79 CHEN, S.Y . 161 KINGSFORD, L.. 181 CHIU,w. . 79 KOLAKOFSKY D.. 143 COLLETT, M.S. . 91 MATSUOKA, Y.. 161 COMPANS, R. W.. 161 NATHANSON, N.. 217 ELLIOTT, R. M.. . 91 PRINGLE, C. R.. . 1 ENDRES. M. J. . . 217 SCHMALJOHN. C.S.. 91 GONZALEZ-SCARANO, F.
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