A planet of viruses. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Carl Zimmer.
• Authors: Zimmer, Carl, 1966-
• Other Names: Schoenherr, Ian illustrator.
• Contents: 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 The Pandemic Age: Why COVID-19 Should Have Come as No Surprise The Long Goodbye: The Delayed Oblivion of Smallpox EPILOGUE The Alien in the Water Cooler: Giant Viruses and What It Means to Be a Virus Acknowledgments Selected References Credits Index.
• Edition: Third edition
• Publisher Details: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 362.1969; Viruses
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780226782621
• Related ISBNs: 9780226782591
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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