Virus hunt
Subtitle: the search for the origin of HIV
By: Dorothy H. Crawford
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780199641147
Subjects: HIV (Viruses); Research
Description: "AIDS was first described in 1981 and just under three years later the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) was discovered. Confirming that HIV causes AIDS--now accepted by virtually all scientists--took rather longer. But where did HIV come from? When did it first infect us? How did it manage to spread so widely?"--Book jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographic references (p. 205-228) and index.
Table of contents: title: The puzzle of HIV-1; title: Tracing HIV to its roots; title: The primate connection; title: From rainforest to research laboratory; title: Timing the jump; title: Vital first steps; title: The epic journey begins; title: Adapting to humans; title: The challenge of pandemics.