Biography of a Germ
Publisher: Pantheon
Published: May 30, 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780375401992
First sentence: TO THE NAKED EYE, it is invisible, a nothing.
Description: "The bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb for short) is a tiny, pale spiral, invisible to the naked eye, yet no one could invent a life so ingenious, or one so tied to so many creatures' fates. Arno Karlen takes readers on a journey through Bb's world - its ancestry and evolution, its day-to-day life, its perilous travels through ticks, mice, and deer, and, finally, its collision with humanity. Its life evokes the vast ecological web in which we and Bb are threads."--BOOK JACKET.