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Viral fitness : the next SARS and West Nile in the making
- Title
- Viral fitness : the next SARS and West Nile in the making / Jaap Goudsmit.
- Author
- Goudsmit, Jaap, 1951-
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 187 p.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- 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.
- Call Number
- JSE 05-852
- ISBN
- 0195130340 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2003021606
- OCLC
- 53138849
- Author
- Goudsmit, Jaap, 1951-
- Title
- Viral fitness : the next SARS and West Nile in the making / Jaap Goudsmit.
- Imprint
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-184) and index.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- JSE 05-852