Viral fitness : the next SARS and West Nile in the making

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Viral fitness : the next SARS and West Nile in the making

Jaap Goudsmit

Oxford University Press, c2004

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Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-184) and index

Contents of Works

  • As natural as breathing: the flu virus
  • Farming and feeding the hungry: plant viruses and human enteroviruses
  • Raising cattle and eating meat: rinderpest, measles and mad cow virus
  • Slaking our thirst: the cholera bacteria and its toxic viruses
  • Weathering storms and droughts: West Nile virus and others alike
  • Getting lucky with a faulty gene: escape from simple retroviruses
  • Taking chances with sex: the herpes and papova viruses
  • Risking death with sex: the AIDS virus
  • Warring against humans and other animals: smallpox, monkeypox and alike
  • Raiding the wild for delicacies: the sars virus

Details

  • NCID
    BA80703413
  • ISBN
    • 0195130340
  • LCCN
    2003021606
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Oxford ; New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    xiii, 187 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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