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A Planet of Viruses

By Carl , Zimmer

Book information

Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Year
2015
ISBN
9780226294209, 9780226320267, 022629420X
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
6 MB (6142427 bytes)
Edition
Second edition
Pages
x, 122 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm\
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Viruses

Description

Foreword / by Judy Diamond and Charles Wood -- Introduction -- "A contagious living fluid" -- Tobacco mosaic virus and the discovery of the virosphere -- Old companions -- The uncommon cold -- How rhinoviruses gently conquered the world -- Looking down from the stars -- Influenza's never-ending reinvention -- Rabbits with horns -- Human papillomavirus and infectious cancer -- Everywhere, in all things -- The enemy of our enemy -- Bacteriophages as viral medicine -- The infected ocean -- How marine phages rule the sea -- Our inner parasites -- Endogenous retroviruses and our virus-riddled genomes -- The viral future -- The young scourge -- Human immunodeficiency virus and the animal origins of diseases -- Becoming an American -- The globalization of West Nile virus -- Predicting the next plague -- Ebola virus and the many others like it -- The long goodbye -- The delayed oblivion of smallpox -- Epilogue

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