The World of Rhabdoviruses (Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, No. 292)

(Draft) In this volume the unique and common features of rhabdoviruses, particularly their morphological, molecular, and pathogenic characteristics, and their phylogenetic relationships are reviewed. Rhabdoviruses have a very wide host range and have been isolated from plants, insects, and almost from all vertebrates including fish and primates. The Rhabdoviridae family consists of six genera which have all been associated with diseases. While rhabdoviruses that are etiological agents of human diseases can cause serious public health problems, other members of this family that infect domestic livestock and agricultural plants can also cause enormous economic loss. . "In this volume, the unique and common features of rhabdoviruses, particularly their morphological, molecular, and pathogenic characteristics as well as their phylogenetic relationships, are reviewed." "Rhabdoviruses have a very wide host range and have been isolated from plants, insects, and almost all vertebrates including fish and primates. The Rhabdoviridae family consists of six genera, which have all been associated with diseases. While rhabdoviruses that are etiological agents of human diseases can cause serious public health problems, other members of this family that infect domestic livestock and agricultural plants can also cause enormous economic loss."--BOOK JACKET Genetic comparison of the rhabdoviruses from animals and plants / Z.F. Fu -- Australian bat lyssavirus: a recently discovered new rhabdovirus / D. Warrilow -- Pathogenesis of rabies / B. Dietzschold, M. Schnell, and H. Koprowski -- Bovine ephemeral fever in Australia and the world / P.J. Walker -- Fish rhabdoviruses: molecular epidemiology and evolution / B. Hoffmann [and others] -- Reverse genetics on fish rhabdovirus: tools to study the pathogenesis of fish rhabdoviruses / M. Brémont -- Plant rhabdoviruses / M.G. Redibaugh and S.A. Hogenhout -- Recombinant rhabdoviruses: vectors for vaccine development and gene therapy/ S. Finke and K.-K. Conzelmann This volume reviews the unique and common features of rhabdoviruses, which have a very wide host range and are associated with human diseases and also infect domestic livestock and agricultural plants, causing enormous economic loss. Rhabdoviruses are a large family of viruses that can infect a wide range of hosts (Walker et al. 2000).