Boosting Virology in Brazil

Boosting Virology in Brazil

In 1997, in an effort to improve the pursuit of virology in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, a group of scientists proposed the establishment of a Viral Genetic Diversity Network (VGDN) to São Paulo’s major scientific funding agency, Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP). The major impetus for the project was the earlier establishment of the Xylella fastidiosa genome sequ...

Virology

This volume of the Handbook of Behavioral Neurobiology contains a wealth of information on the neural control of movement. Overall, the approach of the authors is to stress basic experimental data. Therefore, the book will be an excellent reference source for basic scientists as well as clinicians. The first chapters of the book examine the role of muscle in movement. These chapters discuss rec...

Virology.

Pioneers in Virology.

Walter Reed (1851-1902) Imperial Bacteriology Institute c o r r e c t l y d e m o n s t r a t e d t h a t the etiological agent of rabies was not a protozoan, but a filterable virus a n d t h e a r g u m e n t a b o u t t h e s ignif icance of Negri ’s bodies became wider and more intense, w i t h e m i n e n t p a r a s i t o l o g i s t s taking conflicting positions. For many years, document...

Advances in Tumor Virology

Transfer factor (TF) is a lymphocyte extract of low molecular weight capable of transferring antigen-specific information to T-lymphocytes. A number of reports have documented its efficacy in the control of acute viral infections, particularly those associated with herpes viruses. There have been also several reports of clinical trials utilizing Epstein-Barr Virus-specific TF in associated mali...