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Viral fitness the next SARS and West Nile in the making
Author
Title
Viral fitness [electronic resource] : the next SARS and West Nile in the making / Jaap Goudsmit.
ISBN
0195130340 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Physical Description
xiii, 187 p. ; 24 cm.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2006. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 23, 2006
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-184) and index.
Contents
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.
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