West Nile Encephalitis Virus Infection

1. Global Epidemiology of West Nile Virus
Lyle R. Petersen

2. West Nile Virus: Molecular Epidemiology and Diversity
Gregory D. Ebel, Laura D. Kramer

3. Vector Biology and West Nile Virus
Carol D. Blair

4. Clinical Manifestations of Neurological Disease
J. David Beckham, Kenneth L. Tyler

5. Molecular Biology of West Nile Virus
Margo A. Brinton

6. Virulence of West Nile Virus in Different Animal Hosts
David W. C. Beasley, Alan D. T. Barrett

7. Innate immune Response and Mechanisms of Interferon Antagonism Against West Nile Virus
Jared D. Evans, Christoph Seeger

8. Innate Immune Responses to West Nile Virus Infection
Alvaro Arjona, Erol Fikrig

9. Mechanisms of Complement Regulation of Infection by Flaviviruses
Erin Mehlhop, Michael S. Diamond

10. Antibody-Mediated Neutralization of West Nile Virus: Factors that Govern Neutralization Potency
Christiane A. Jost, Theodore C. Pierson

11. Structural Basis of Antibody Protection Against West Nile Virus
Richard J. Kuhn

12. Molecular Mechanisms of Flaviviral Membrane Fusion
Yorgo Modis, Vinod Nayak

13. CD4 + and CD8 + T-Cell Immune Responses in West Nile Virus Infection
Mario Lobigs, Arno Müllbacher, Matthias Regner

14. Enhanced Antigen Processing or Immune Evasion? West Nile Virus and the Induction of Immune Recognition Molecules
Nicholas J. C. King, Ariane Davison, Daniel R. Getts, David Ping Lu, Meghann Teague Getts, Amanda Yeung, James K. Peterson, Alison M. Kesson

15. Chemokines and Clearance of West Nile Virus Infection
Robyn S. Klein

16. Persistence of West Nile Virus Infection in Vertebrates
Robert B. Tesh, Shu-Yuan Xiao

17. West Nile Virus Infection of the Central Nervous System
Melanie A. Samuel, Michael S. Diamond

18. The Human Antibody Response Against WNV
Mark Throsby, Jaap Goudsmit, John de Kruif

19. Antibody Protection and Therapy for West Nile Virus Infections
John T. Roehrig

20. Vaccine Development Against West Nile Virus
Alexander A. Khromykh, David C. Chang, Roy A. Hall

21. Novel Therapeutics Against West Nile Virus
Pei-Yong Shi

Nyckelord: Biomedicine, Virology, Immunology, Infectious Diseases, Microbiology, Biomedicine general, Epidemiology