Radiation Inactivation of Bioterrorism Agents
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Author(s): L.G. Gazsó and C. C. Ponta (Eds)
Publisher: IOS Press
ISBN: 158603488X
Format: hardback
203pp
Price: Ł74.00, $126.00, €105.00
Review Date: 11 April 2005
Review: This report of a NATO science meeting held in Hungary in 2004 presents the issues associated with the use of radiation decontamination methods after attack with bioterrorism agents. Many of these issues have been highlighted by events in the US in 2001 when the mail system was contaminated with anthrax spores. The conference papers in the book cover a wide range of aspects including, among others, radiation technology and safety, prevention of bioterrorism, decontamination methods, potential agents for biological weapons, real-time methods for virus identification, and radiation inactivation of medically relevant viruses.