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Infectious disease : a Scientific American reader. Cover Image Book Book

Infectious disease : a Scientific American reader

University of Chicago Press (Added Author).

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  • ISBN: 9780226742632 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 0226742636 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: print
    326 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note: Evolution and the origins of disease / Randolph M. Nesse and George C. Williams -- Are viruses alive? / Luis P. Villarreal -- New hope for defeating rotavirus / Roger I. Glass -- Capturing a killer flu virus / Jeffery K. Taubenberger, Ann H. Reid and Thomas G. Fanning -- The unmet challenges of hepatitis C / Adrian M. di Bisceglie and Bruce R. Bacon -- Hope in a vial : [work towards an AIDS vaccine] / Carol Ezzell -- A new assault on HIV / Gary Stix -- A cure for rabies? / Rodney E. Willoughby, Jr. -- Emerging viruses / Bernard Le Guenno -- Beyond chicken soup : [antiviral drugs] / William A. Haseltine -- The bacteria behind ulcers / Martin J. Blaser -- The challenges of STDs / Philip E. Ross -- Can chlamydia be stopped? / David M. Ojcius, Toni Darville and Patrik M. Bavoil -- Tackling malaria / Claire Panosian Dunavan -- Attacking anthrax / John A.T. Young and R. John Collier -- The prion diseases / Stanley B. Prusiner -- Detecting mad cow disease / Standley B. Prusiner -- Infectious diseases and the immune system / William E. Paul -- Immunity's early-warning system / Luke A.J. O'Neill -- The long arm of the immune system / Jacques Bancherreau -- Intrigue at the immune synapse / Daniel M. Davis -- Peacekeepers of the immune system / Zoltan Fehervari and Shimon Sakaguchi -- New predictors of disease / Abner Louis Notkins -- Taming lupus / Moncef Zouali -- Preparing for a pandemic / W. Wayt Gibbs and Christine Soares -- If smallpox strikes Portland / Chris L. Barrett, Stephen G. Eubank and James P. Smith -- Is global warming harmful to health? / Paul R. Epstein -- The challenge of antibiotic resistance / Stuart B. Levy -- Behind enemy lines : [fighting antibiotic resistance] / K.C. Nicolaou and Christopher N.C. Boddy -- An antibiotic resistance fighter / Gary Stix.

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