Progress in Medical Virology. Volume I

Despite the recent proliferation of various biological publications there is ample justification for a review series on the medical aspects of virology. Such a publication should keep clinicians and clinical investigators informed of advances in fundamental virology and should summarize and correlate the literature of viral disease. The editors seem to have had these objectives clearly in mind when planning this first volume in a projected series. On the fundamental level there are articles dealing with the structural and functional aspects of virus particles and the significance of persistent virus infections in tissue culture. Of more direct interest to the clinician are the reports on the 1957 pandemic of influenza and the critical review of the techniques used in preparing and evaluating poliomyelitis vaccine.

The editors have gone out of their way to obtain a truly international representation. There are articles from South Africa, the U.S.S.R., India, England, and the