Viruses : a very short introduction / Dorothy H. Crawford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crawford, Dorothy H., author.

Series:

Very short introductions.

Very short introductions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Viruses.

Medical virology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

2022.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022.

Summary:

Viruses are everywhere, and as the COVID-19 pandemic has shown, cannot be ignored. From their discovery to the unravelling of their intricate structures, this book provides a rounded and concise account of the nature of viruses, how they attack their hosts, and the efforts to control them.

Contents:

1. What are viruses?

2. Kill or be killed

3. Emerging virus infections : vertebrate-transmitted viruses

4. Emerging virus infections : arthropod-transmitted viruses

5. Emerging virus infections : the coronaviruses

6. Virus acquisition and eradication

7. Persistent viruses

8. Tumour viruses

9. Viruses past and future.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2022.

Previous edition: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-268848-0

0-19-268849-9

0-19-195552-3