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A planet of viruses

Carl Zimmer 1966-

Localização: FEA - Fac. Econ. Adm. Contab. e Atuária ACERVO DELFIM NETTO (C8.14.31 )(Acessar)

Título:
A planet of viruses
Autor: Carl Zimmer 1966-
Assuntos: Viruses; VÍRUS; VIROLOGIA
Notas: Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-116) and index
Descrição: 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
Editor: Chicago, Ill. The University of Chicago Press
Data de criação/publicação: 2015
Formato: x, 122 p il. (some color) 22 cm.
Idioma: Inglês

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