| Description |
x, 109 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 97-101) and index. |
| Contents |
"A contagious living fluid" : tobacco mosaic virus -- Old companions -- The uncommon cold : rhinovirus -- Looking down from the stars : influenza virus -- Rabbits with horns : 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. |
| Summary |
This book explores the hidden world of viruses -a world that each of us inhabits. Here Carl Zimmer, popular science writer and author of Discover magazine's award-winning blog The Loom, presents the latest research on how viruses hold sway over our lives and our biosphere, how viruses helped give rise to the first life-forms, how viruses are producing new diseases, how we can harness viruses for our own ends, and how viruses will continue to control our fate for years to come. |
| Subject |
Viruses.
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Viruses.
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Virus Diseases -- virology.
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| ISBN |
9780226983356 cloth alkaline paper $20.00 |
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0226983358 cloth alkaline paper |
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