| Description |
1 online resource (x, 109 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) |
| Contents |
"A contagious living fluid" : tobacco mosaic virus -- Old companions -- The uncommon cold: rhinovirus -- Looking down from the stars : influenza virus -- Rabbits with horns : papillomavirus -- Everywhere, in all things -- The enemy of our enemy : bacteriophages -- Oceans of viruses : marine phages -- The infected genome : endogenous retroviruses -- The viral future -- The young scourge : human immunodeficiency virus -- Becoming an American : West Nile virus -- Predicting the next plague : severe acute respiratory syndrome -- The long goodbye : smallpox -- The alien in the watercooler : mimivirus |
| Summary |
Viruses are the smallest living things known to science, and yet they hold the entire planet in their sway. We're most familiar with the viruses that give us colds or the flu, but viruses also cause a vast range of other diseases, including one disorder that makes people sprout branch-like growths as if they were trees. Viruses have been a part of our lives for so long, in fact, that we are actually part virus: the human genome contains more DNA from viruses than our own genes. Meanwhile, scientists are discovering viruses everywhere they look: in the soil, in the ocean, even in deep caves mil |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Viruses.
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Viruses
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Virus Diseases -- virology
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MEDICAL -- Infectious Diseases.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Contagious.
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Viruses
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Virus.
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Maladies virales.
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Viren.
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Virus.
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Viruses.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780226983332 |
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0226983331 |
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1283097672 |
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9781283097673 |
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9780226983356 |
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0226983358 |
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