Overview
- Summarizes recent advances in understanding both basic CHIKV biology and its pathogenesis
- Updates on the current status of the global CHIKV outbreak as well as the history of CHIKV epidemics
- Presents overviews of translational advances toward new CHIKV vaccines and therapies
Part of the book series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology (CT MICROBIOLOGY, volume 435)
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About this book
This book provides readers with a collection of latest reviews written by Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) research leaders who cover topics related to CHIKV replication, advances in CHIKV research reagents and model system development, as well as the pathogenesis of chronic CHIKV disease. Moreover, the volume updates on recent progress in the development of therapeutics and vaccines for treatment and prevention of CHIKV-induced disease.
Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is a mosquito-borne pathogen that has re-emerged to become a significant global disease threat. Although CHIKV has historically been associated with localized outbreaks of debilitating polyarthralgia in Africa and Asia, factors such as increased global travel and viral adaptation to new mosquito vectors have led to the introduction and spread of CHIKV in new regions of the world, including the Americas. The re-emergence of CHIKV has stimulated significant interest both in understanding the biology of CHIKV andin the development of medical countermeasures against the virus.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Mark Heise studies the pathogenesis of mosquito-borne and respiratory viruses at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, US. He is Professor of Genetics, Microbiology and Immunology. His laboratory use molecular virology, immunology, and complex trait genetics methodologies to study how viral and host factors interact to promote virus-induced disease.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Chikungunya Virus
Editors: Mark Heise
Series Title: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90610-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-90609-2Published: 03 February 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-90612-2Published: 04 February 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-90610-8Published: 02 February 2022
Series ISSN: 0070-217X
Series E-ISSN: 2196-9965
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 139
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Immunology, Vaccine, Virology