Viral sex : the nature of AIDS
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Viral sex : the nature of AIDS
Oxford University Press, 1997
- pbk
大学図書館所蔵 全11件
  青森
  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
  ベルギー
  オランダ
  スウェーデン
  ノルウェー
  アメリカ
注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-247) and index
内容説明・目次
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ISBN 9780195097283
内容説明
The AIDS threat has mobilized an unprecedented research effort to understand and control the disease. We have discovered its agent, HIV, the human immunodeficiency virus. Every day we know more about this complex retrovirus and how it works, but we still lack an effective defense strategy.
This book will give the nonspecialist an AIDS overview and a vantage point from which to observe and support the continuing struggle with HIV. It also will urge that we look beyond this deadly virus. As we seek vaccines and therapies to stop its fatal course, we must understand that the real cause of AIDS is not HIV. It is the environmental context that allowed the virus to escape its natural host and enter the human population at this particular time in history.
The question is why, after millenia of contact between African monkeys and humans, has SIV (Simian immunodeficiency virus) only now entered the human population in plague proportions? Is its introduction a purely random and natural disaster, or is it somehow the result of human social and cultural evolution? This book explains how human encroachment on the African monkey habitat set up conditions that made it possible and almost likely that the virus would successfully jump to a new host,
with the consequences that we now see as the world wide AIDS epidemic. It presents the full history of the various subtypes of the virus, and the epidemics they cause, and assembles the future threats in every region of the world.
The book argues that facing our responsibility for the AIDS outbreak holds the key to reversing the damage. If we study our actions and this lethal natural reaction, we can find ways to halt the AIDS and prevent similar plagues that could erupt in the future.
目次
- 1. The most disarming virus
- 2. The rise of the western AIDS epidemic
- 3. HIV baby booms: epidemics come and go
- 4. The rainforest roots of HIV
- 5. HIV-0 and HIV-1: the chimpanzee connection
- 6. HIV-2: the sooty mangabey connection
- 7. Searching for SIV in monkey mummies
- 8. Beyond HIV and SIV: the cat connection
- 9. The mystery suitor: HIV's next move
- 10. Viral sex and AIDS: response to instability
- 11. Retrovirus survival: the human threat
- 12. Human survival: vaccines to disarm HIV
- Epilogue
- Glossary
- Index
- Bibliography
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pbk ISBN 9780195124965
内容説明
In Viral Sex, leading AIDS researcher Jaap Goudsmit illuminates the origins and nature of the world's most lethal epidemic. This fascinating epidemiological whodunit, or...`howdunit' (The Lancet), takes us on a journey from the African rainforest, to ancient Egypt, to pioneering research labs in the U.S. and Europe.
The concept of `viral sex', Goudsmit explains, is central to understanding the AIDS crisis. HIV not only produces offspring that are almost exact copies of the parents, but also reproduces sexually, creating a recombinant population of variants. This `viral sex' gives HIV an edge in adapting to new hosts, enabling it to survive the leap from ape to man. Goudsmit argues that the man-made phenomenon of deforestation and human encroachment on the African monkey habitat provided the opportunity
for the SIV virus to jump to its new host, human beings, who then brought HIV out of the Cameroon rainforest at the turn of the century.
Provocative, vividly written, and impeccably researched, Viral Sex instills readers with a new sense of the urgent need to contain HIV and other similarly lethal viruses before they spread beyond the grasp of even the most sophisticated science.
目次
- 1. The most disarming virus
- 2. The rise of the western AIDS epidemic
- 3. HIV baby booms: epidemics come and go
- 4. The rainforest roots of HIV
- 5. HIV-0 and HIV-1: the chimpanzee connection
- 6. HIV-2: the sooty mangabey connection
- 7. Searching for SIV in monkey mummies
- 8. Beyond HIV and SIV: the cat connection
- 9. The mystery suitor: HIV's next move
- 10. Viral sex and AIDS: response to instability
- 11. Retrovirus survival: the human threat
- 12. Human survival: vaccines to disarm HIV
- Epilogue
- Glossary
- Index
- Bibliography
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