Book Description
In Ebola and Marburg Viruses: A View of Infection Using Electron Microscopy, the authors combine recent published and unpublished literature with insights developed in over 30 years in electron microscopy and 15 years in virology to tell the story of filoviruses and how they invade and conquer their hosts. The book describes the dynamic properties of these viruses and follows the stages of filoviral infection from the individual cell to the whole organism, constructing the sequential events of filoviral infections.
The book also demonstrates that, rather than a curiosity, the electron microscope is an integral tool in studies of viral infection and the pathological process. Ebola and Marburg Viruses: A View of Infection Using Electron Microscopy includes over 100 outstanding micrographs of filoviruses and the cell and tissue damage they cause during infection, as well as time course studies of Marburg infection in test animals.
The book is addressed to investigators in the widely diversified fields of medicine and biology. For this reason, the authors, Dr. Elena Ryabchikova and Dr. Barbara Price, have carefully elucidated concepts familiar to virologists that may be unfamiliar to nonvirologists. The book is also designed to provide opportunities for investigators specializing in viruses to correlate their findings with the work of electron microscopists.
About the author
Barbara Breidenbach Saunders-Price, Ph.D., is a senior research scientist at Battelle Science and Technology International in Aberdeen, Maryland, USA. She received her MA and Ph.D. in chemistry from Harvard University. She has spent much of her career in environmental fate and public health risk assessment, and in nuclear, biological, and chemical defense studies. She has been an editor for the ASA Newsletter for over 15 years and Chair or Co-Chair for each of the Chemical Biological Medical Treatment Symposia.
