A planet of viruses /
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| Typ dokumentu: | Kniha |
| Jazyk: | Angličtina |
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Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press,
2015
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| Vydání: | Second edition |
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| On-line přístup: | Elektronická verze přístupná pouze pro studenty a pracovníky MU |
| Příbuzné jednotky: | Tištěná verze::
Planet of viruses. |
Obsah:
- Foreword / by Judy Diamond and Charles Wood
- Introduction
- "A contagious living fluid"
- Tobacco mosaic virus and the discovery of the virosphere
- Old companions
- The uncommon cold
- How rhinoviruses gently conquered the world
- Looking down from the stars
- Influenza's never-ending reinvention
- Rabbits with horns
- Human papillomavirus and infectious cancer
- Everywhere, in all things
- The enemy of our enemy
- Bacteriophages as viral medicine
- The infected ocean
- How marine phages rule the sea
- Our inner parasites
- Endogenous retroviruses and our virus-riddled genomes
- The viral future
- The young scourge
- Human immunodeficiency virus and the animal origins of diseases
- Becoming an American
- The globalization of West Nile virus
- Predicting the next plague
- Ebola virus and the many others like it
- The long goodbye
- The delayed oblivion of smallpox
- Epilogue.