Deadly companions
Subtitle: how microbes shaped our history
By: Dorothy H. Crawford.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780199561445
Subjects: Epidemics -- History; Infection -- History; Communicable diseases -- History; Diseases and history
Notes: Originally published: 2007.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 228-240) and index.
Table of contents: title: How it all began; title: Our microbial inheritance; title: Microbes jump species; title: Crowds, filth, and poverty; title: Microbes go global; title: Famine and devastation; title: Deadly companions revealed; title: The fight back.