A Planet of Viruses 9780226983356, 0226983358, 9780226983332

Viruses are the smallest living things known to science, and yet they hold the entire planet in their sway. We are most

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A Planet of Viruses
 9780226983356, 0226983358, 9780226983332

Table of contents :
"A contagious living fluid" : tobacco mosaic virus --
Old Companions. The uncommon cold: rhinovirus --
Looking down from the stars: influenza virus --
Rabbits with horns: human papillomavirus --
Everywhere, in All Things. --
The enemy of our enemy: bacteriophages --
The infected ocean: marine phages --
Our inner parasites: endogenous retroviruses --
The Viral Future. The young scourge: human immunodeficiency virus --
Becoming an American: West Nile virus --
Predicting the next plague: severe acute respiratory syndrome and ebola --
The long goodbye: smallpox --
The alien in the watercooler: mimivirus.

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