Viral fitness : the next SARS and West Nile in the making / Jaap Goudsmit.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goudsmit, Jaap, 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Viruses.

Virus diseases.

Virus Diseases.

Medical Subjects:

Viruses.

Virus Diseases.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (204 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Addressing viral adaption as a general phenomenon, the author examines the heart of viral emergence as human behaviour alters viral ecosystems.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-184) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Goudsmit, Jaap, 1951- Viral fitness.

ISBN:

0-19-028479-X

0-19-802992-6

1-280-47247-2

1-4237-1992-1

9786610472475

OCLC:

559929011