Viral fitness [electronic resource] : the next SARS and West Nile in the making / Jaap Goudsmit.
By: Goudsmit, Jaap.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
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BookPublisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004Description: xiii, 187 p.Subject(s): Viruses | Virus diseasesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 614.5/8 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | URL | Copy number | Status | Date due | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-184) and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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