Zoonotic Viruses of Northern Eurasia: Taxonomy and Ecology

Zoonotic Viruses of Northern Eurasia: Taxonomy and Ecology provides a review of modern data of the taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of zoonotic viruses in the ecosystems of Northern Eurasia. With climate changes, increasing population density of arthropod vectors and vertebrate hosts, development of unused lands, transferences of viruses by birds, bats, infected humans, and animals, vectors allow virus populations to adapt to the new environment. This leads to the appearance of emerging or re-emerging infections.

This book presents data about circulation and evolution of influenza viruses, tick-borne encephalitis virus, West Nile virus, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus, hantaviruses, Sindbis virus, California encephalitis group viruses and other pathogenic viruses as well as of novel viruses classified for the first time using next-generation sequence.

Features summarized data about the circulation of approximately 80 viruses isolated in natural foci of Northern EurasiaProvides descriptions of the main ecosystems of Northern Eurasia in the context of the ecology of viruses with environmental factorsDelineates the potential impact of climate change for the distribution of virusesIncludes virus taxonomy, ecology, distribution and pathogenicity for humans and animals

I. Introduction
II. Development of virology – history of emerging viruses
III. Ecological approach for investigation of zoonotic viruses
 III.1. General concepts
 III.2. Vertebrate hosts
 III.3. Arthropod vectors
IV. Methods.
 IV.1. Ecologo-virological monitoring of Northern Eurasia territories
 IV.2. Long-time storing of isolated strains
 IV.3. Next generation sequencing
V. Zoonotic viruses of Northern Eurasia: taxonomy and ecology
 V.1. Order Mononegavirales
 V.2. Order Picornavirales
 V.3. Double stranded RNA viruses
 V.4. Single stranded RNA viruses
 V.5. Double stranded DNA viruses
 V.6. Prions
VI. Indexes.
 VI.1. Virus index
 VI.2. Arthropod index
 VI.3. Vertebrate index
 VI.4. Abbreviations index