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A Planet of Viruses

By Carl Zimmer

Book information

Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Year
2011
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1949664 bytes)
Pages
106\106
Time added
2019-04-16 02:34:07
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Carl Zimmer A Planet of Viruses University of Chicago Press (2011) Foreword by Judy Diamond and Charles Wood......Page 7 INTRODUCTION “A Contagious Living Fluid”: Tobacco Mosaic Virus......Page 9 OLD COMPANIONS......Page 14 The Uncommon Cold Rhinovirus......Page 16 Looking Down from the Stars Influenza Virus......Page 21 Rabbits with Horns Human Papillomavirus......Page 27 EVERYWHERE, IN ALL THINGS......Page 33 The Enemy of Our Enemy Bacteriophages......Page 35 The Infected Ocean Marine Phages......Page 42 Our Inner Parasites Endogenous Retroviruses......Page 48 THE VIRAL FUTURE......Page 54 The Young Scourge Human Immunodeficiency Virus......Page 56 Becoming an American West Nile Virus......Page 64 Predicting the Next Plague Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome and Ebola......Page 70 The Long Goodbye Smallpox......Page 76 EPILOGUE The Alien in the Watercooler: Mimivirus......Page 83 Acknowledgments......Page 88 Selected references......Page 89 Credits......Page 96 Index......Page 97

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