TY - CHAP AU - Aleksandar Jakovljević AU - Miroslav Andrić AU - Aleksandra Knežević AU - Katarina Beljić-Ivanović AU - Maja Miletić AU - Tanja Jovanović AU - Ljiljana Kesić and Jelena Milašin ED - Jozsef Ongradi Y1 - 2016-09-07 PY - 2016 T1 - Herpesviruses in Periapical Pathoses: An Updated Systematic Review N2 - Herpesviruses are unique among viruses as they encode for a complex self-regulatory system, aggressively invade and persist in the host, evade immune defense, alter all regulatory mechanisms of the macroorganism and modify the replication of heterologous viruses. Environmental factors influence these unconventional relationships. Consequently, a single herpesvirus species can be attributed to a wide range of diseases as etiological agents or cofactors. This book is intended to give an overview on selected clinical hot topics: herpes simplex virus encephalitis, persistent infection in the gingiva, thymidine kinase gene expression causing male infertility, and pharmaceutical reactivation of Epstein-Barr virus for oncolysis. Immune evasion mechanisms and new ways to formulate vaccines are exhaustively reviewed. Finally, a surprise: bovine herpesviruses could serve as models to study the pathomechanism of herpesviruses. BT - Herpesviridae SP - Ch. 3 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/64004 DO - 10.5772/64004 SN - 978-953-51-2611-9 PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-25 ER -