Readership: Researchers, postgraduates, and grad students: biologists working on disease ecology, evolution, and dynamics. Mathematical biologists. Immunologists and virologists. Mathematicians working on biological problems.
Martin Nowak, Professor of Theoretical Biology, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA, and Robert M. May, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford
"... an excellent introduction to a field that has the potential to advance substantially our understanding of the complex interplay between virus and host" - Nature
Preface 1: Introduction: Viruses, immunity, equations 2: HIV 3: The basic model of virus dynamics 4: Anti-viral drug therapy 5: Dynamics of hepatitis B virus 6: Dynamics of immune responses 7: How fast do immune responses eliminate infected cells? 8: What is a quasispecies 9: The frequency of resistant mutant virus before anti-viral therapy 10: Emergence of drug resistance 11: Timing the emergence of resistance 12: Simple antigenic variation 13: Advanced antigenic variation 14: Multiple epitopes 15: Everything we know so far and beyond Appendix A - Dynamics of resistance in different types of infected cells Appendix B - Analysis of multiple epitope dynamics
