Emergence and Control of Zoonotic Viral Encephalitides

Zoonotic viruses of wildlife: hither from yon.- The role of surveillance in polio eradication and identification of emerging viral encephalitis.- Emergence and virulence of encephalitogenic arboviruses.- Molecular determinants of virulence of West Nile virus in North America.- Genetic determinants of Venezuelan equine encephalitis emergence.- Evolution and dispersal of encephalitic flaviviruses.- West Nile virus and other zoonotic viruses in Russia: examples of emerging-reemerging situations.- Emerging encephalitogenic viruses: Iyssaviruses and henipaviruses transmitted by frugivorous bats.- Novel viral encephalitides associated with bats (Chiroptera) - host management strategies.- Henipaviruses: recent observations on regulation of transcription and the nature of the cell receptor.- The entry machinery of flaviviruses.- Persistent infection and suppression of host response by alphaviruses.- Subversive neuroinvasive strategy of rabies virus.- Neurovirulence and host factors in flavivirus encephalitis - evidence from clinical epidemiology.- Regulation of apoptosis by viruses that infect insects.- Semliki Forest virus infection of laboratory mice: a model to study the pathogenesis of viral encephalitis.- A novel principle of attenuation for the development of new generation live flavivirus vaccines.- Tick-borne encephalitis and the impact of vaccination.- Future vaccines against emerging encephalitides.- Recombinant canarypoxvirus vaccine carrying the prM/E genes of West Nile virus protects horses against a West Nile virus-mosquito challenge.- Diagnosis of zoonotic viral encephalitis.