A planet of viruses
By: Carl Zimmer
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 109
ISBN-13: 9780226983356
Subjects: Viruses
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 97-101) and index.
Table of contents: title: "A contagious living fluid" : tobacco mosaic virus; title: Old companions; title: The uncommon cold: rhinovirus; title: Looking down from the stars : influenza virus; title: Rabbits with horns : papillomavirus; title: Everywhere, in all things; title: The enemy of our enemy : bacteriophages; title: Oceans of viruses : marine phages; title: The infected genome : endogenous retroviruses; title: The viral future; title: The young scourge : human immunodeficiency virus; title: Becoming an American :  West Nile virus; title: Predicting the next plague : severe acute respiratory syndrome; title: The long goodbye : smallpox; title: The alien in the watercooler : mimivirus.