A planet of viruses / Carl Zimmer.
By: Zimmer, Carl [author.].
Publisher: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Edition: Second edition.Description: x, 122 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780226294209 (paper : alk. paper).Subject(s): VirusesGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-116) and index.
Foreword / by Judy Diamond and Charles Wood -- Introduction -- "A contagious living fluid" -- Tobacco mosaic virus and the discovery of the virosphere -- Old companions -- The uncommon cold -- How rhinoviruses gently conquered the world -- Looking down from the stars -- Influenza's never-ending reinvention -- Rabbits with horns -- Human papillomavirus and infectious cancer -- Everywhere, in all things -- The enemy of our enemy -- Bacteriophages as viral medicine -- The infected ocean -- How marine phages rule the sea -- Our inner parasites -- Endogenous retroviruses and our virus-riddled genomes -- The viral future -- The young scourge -- Human immunodeficiency virus and the animal origins of diseases -- Becoming an American -- The globalization of West Nile virus -- Predicting the next plague -- Ebola virus and the many others like it -- The long goodbye -- The delayed oblivion of smallpox -- Epilogue.