id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-008764-j9qmw4zy nan Chapter 1 The need for chemotherapy and prophylaxis against viral diseases 2008-05-29 .txt text/plain 6399 273 47 We shall examine the methods developed for the prevention of measles, influenza, polio and rotaviruses later on (Chapters 8, 7, 4 and 9, respectively) but it may be mentioned here that live polio vaccines used so successfully in industrialized countries are much more difficult to apply successfully in third world countries where problems of vaccine administration, heat lability control and viral interference become very important. The greatest challenges and probably the most difficult and medically important areas for prophylaxis and therapy of viral diseases are those viruses which are rapidly changing in antigenic composition and/or viruses with animal reservoirs (influenza and arboviruses) and also those forming latent infections (herpesviruses). The greatest challenges and probably the most difficult and medically important areas for prophylaxis and therapy of viral diseases are those viruses which are rapidly changing in antigenic composition and/or viruses with animal reservoirs (influenza and arboviruses) and also those forming latent infections (herpesviruses). ./cache/cord-008764-j9qmw4zy.txt ./txt/cord-008764-j9qmw4zy.txt