Viral Infections in Asthma, An Issue of Immunology and Allergy Clinics

This issue, Guest Edited by Drs. Shyam Mohapatra and Gary Hellermann, will include topics such as: Virus-induced airway injury and asthma inception; Pediatric infectious diseases and asthma; Rhinoviruses and inception or exacerbation of asthma; Respiratory syncytial virus infections in the adult asthmatic-role of viral subversion and host susceptibility in RSV infection; New rhinovirus clades and their significance in asthma exacerbation and airway remodeling; Metapneumovirus and asthma.

About the author

Shyam Mohapatra is Distinguished USF Health Professor, Director of the Division of Translational Medicine at the University of South Florida. He also directs the USF Center for Research and Education in Nanobioengineering and is a Research Career Scientist at the James A. Haley VA Hospital in Tampa. He also serves as Associate Dean of Graduate Programs at the USF College of Pharmacy, and established a highly innovative Master of Science program in Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology. He has published over 170 papers and holds over 30 U.S. and international patents. He is a Fellow of the AAAAI, NAI, and AIMBE, and a 2014 inductee of the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame.

Product details

• Authors: Gary Hellermann, Shyam Mohapatra
• Publisher: Elsevier Health Science
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2010
• EAN: 9781437724592
• ISBN: 978-1-4377-2459-2
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 228 mm x 229 mm
• Weight: 400 g
• Series: The Clinics: Internal Medicine; Clinics (Elsevier)
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Herz- und Thoraxchirurgie, MEDICAL / Immunology, MEDICAL / Pulmonary & Thoracic Medicine, Medical / Nursing