Evolution of infectious disease /
Findings from the field of evolutionary biology are yielding dramatic insights for health scientists, especially those involved in the fight against infectious diseases. This book is the first in-depth presentation of these insights. In detailing why the pathogens that cause malaria, smallpox, tuber...
| Основен автор: | Ewald, Paul W. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
1994.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=143556 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Evolution of infectious disease. |
Съдържание:
- Why this book?
- Symptomatic treatment (or how to bind the origin of species to the physician's desk reference)
- Vectors, vertical transmission and the evolution of virulence
- How to be severe without vectors
- When water moves like a mosquito
- Attendant-borne transmission (or how are doctors and nurses like mosquitoes, machetes and moving water?)
- War and virulence
- AIDS: where did it come from and where is it going?
- Fight against AIDS: biomedical strategies and HIV's evolutionary responses
- A look backward
- A glimpse forward (or who needs Darwin).