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Title Comparative hepatitis / Olaf Weber, Ulrike Protzer, editors
Published Basel ; Boston : Birkhäuser, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 383 pages) : illustrations
Series Birkhäuser advances in infectious diseases
Birkhäuser advances in infectious diseases.
Contents Hepatitis in the clinics -- Treatment options -- Differential diagnosis of human hepatitis -- Comparative pathology -- Hepatitis B virus: Lessons learned from the virus life cycle -- Chronic hepatitis C: Portrait of a silent epidemic and the etiologic agent -- Hepatitis A infection -- Hepatitis E infection -- Bacterial infections of the liver -- Comparative hepatitis: Diseases caused by adult parasites or their distinct life cycle stages -- Autoimmune hepatitis in humans -- Hepatitis in dogs -- Hepatitis in horses -- The woodchuck model of hepadnavirus infection -- Hepadnaviruses have a narrow host range -- do they? -- The liver as immune escape site for pathogens -- Drug candidates for the treatment of viral hepatitis
Summary Acute and chronic hepatitis and hepatitis-related diseases such as liver failure, liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma are among the most important causes for disabilities and death. Hepatocellular injury is due to a variety of agents including viruses, toxins, radiation, injury and drugs but also bacteria, parasites and autoimmune reactions. This volume reviews today's knowledge about hepatitis with emphasis on comparative aspects between hepatitis in humans and animals, but also between different etiological agents. This particular viewpoint makes the book relevant for scientists from both human and veterinary medicine, gastroenterologists, pathologists, virologists and students of human and veterinary medicine
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Hepatitis.
Hepatitis -- Etiology
Hepatitis -- Animal models
Hepatitis
Models, Animal
Physiology, Comparative -- methods
Biomédecine.
Sciences de la vie.
Hepatitis.
Hepatitis -- Animal models.
Hepatitis -- Aufsatzsammlung.
Genre/Form Aufsatzsammlung.
Form Electronic book
Author Weber, Olaf F
Protzer, Ulrike
ISBN 9783764385583
3764385588
9783764385576
376438557X