A planet of viruses / Carl Zimmer.
Material type: TextPublication details: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, c2011.Description: x, 109 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cmISBN:- 9780226983356 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0226983358 (cloth : alk. paper)
- QR360 .Z65 2011
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 97-101) and index.
"A contagious living fluid" : tobacco mosaic virus -- Old companions -- The uncommon cold: rhinovirus -- Looking down from the stars : influenza virus -- Rabbits with horns : papillomavirus -- Everywhere, in all things -- The enemy of our enemy : bacteriophages -- Oceans of viruses : marine phages -- The infected genome : 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 -- The long goodbye : smallpox -- The alien in the watercooler : mimivirus.