A planet of viruses
Viruses are the smallest living things known to science, and yet they hold the entire planet in their sway. We are most familiar with the viruses that give us colds or the flu, but viruses also cause a vast range of other diseases. Viruses have been a part of our lives for so long, in fact, that we...
| Main Author: | Zimmer, Carl, 1966- |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago ; London :
University of Chicago Press,
c2011.
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Table of Contents:
- "A contagious living fluid" : tobacco mosaic virus
- Old Companions. The uncommon cold: rhinovirus
- Looking down from the stars: influenza virus
- Rabbits with horns: human papillomavirus
- Everywhere, in All Things.
- The enemy of our enemy: bacteriophages
- The infected ocean: marine phages
- Our inner parasites: endogenous retroviruses
- The Viral Future. The young scourge: human immunodeficiency virus
- Becoming an American: West Nile virus
- Predicting the next plague: severe acute respiratory syndrome and ebola
- The long goodbye: smallpox
- The alien in the watercooler: mimivirus.