Virus hunt : the search for the origin of HIV/AIDs / Dorothy H. Crawford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crawford, Dorothy H.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

AIDS (Disease).

HIV infections.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The hunt for the origin of the AIDS virus began over twenty years ago. It was a journey that went around the world and involved painstaking research to unravel how, when, and where the virus first infected humans.Dorothy H. Crawford traces the story back to the remote rain forests of Africa - home to the primates that carry the ancestral virus - and reveals how HIV-1 first jumped from chimpanzees to humans in rural south east Cameroon. Examining how this happened, and how it then travelled back to Colonial west central Africa where it eventually exploded as a pandemic, she asks why and how it

Contents:

The puzzle of HIV-1

Tracing HIV to its roots

The primate connection

From rainforest to research laboratory

Timing the jump

Vital first steps

The epic journey begins

Adapting to humans

The challenge of pandemics.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-165412-4

0-19-165411-6