A planet of viruses
By: Carl Zimmer
Edition: Second edition
Publisher: University of Chicago Press; The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Chicago, Illinois
Language: eng
Number of pages: 122
ISBN-13: 9780226294209
Subjects: Viruses
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-116) and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / by Judy Diamond and Charles Wood; title: Introduction; title: "A contagious living fluid"; title: Tobacco mosaic virus and the discovery of the virosphere; title: Old companions; title: The uncommon cold; title: How rhinoviruses gently conquered the world; title: Looking down from the stars; title: Influenza's never-ending reinvention; title: Rabbits with horns; title: Human papillomavirus and infectious cancer; title: Everywhere, in all things; title: The enemy of our enemy; title: Bacteriophages as viral medicine; title: The infected ocean; title: How marine phages rule the sea; title: Our inner parasites; title: Endogenous retroviruses and our virus-riddled genomes; title: The viral future; title: The young scourge; title: Human immunodeficiency virus and the animal origins of diseases; title: Becoming an American; title: The globalization of West Nile virus; title: Predicting the next plague; title: Ebola virus and the many others like it; title: The long goodbye; title: The delayed oblivion of smallpox; title: Epilogue.