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001 2009003550
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020 $a9780195327311 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020 $a0195327314 (pbk. : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn301798298
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050 00 $aRC114.5$b.O37 2010
082 00 $a616.9$222
100 1 $aOldstone, Michael B. A.
245 10 $aViruses, plagues, and history :$bpast, present, and future /$cMichael B.A. Oldstone.
250 $aRev. and updated ed.
260 $aOxford ;$aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c2010.
300 $axvi, 383 p. :$bill., maps ;$c21 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 343-369) and index.
505 0 $aViruses, plagues, and history. A general introduction. Introduction to the principles of virology. Introduction to the principles of immunology -- Success stories. Smallpox. Yellow fever. Measles virus. Poliomyelitis -- Present and future challenges. An overview of newly emerging viral plagues : the hemorrhagic fevers. Lassa fever. Ebola. Hantavirus. Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) : the first pandemic of the twenty-first century. West Nile virus : deaths of crows and humans. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) : AIDS, the current plague. Mad cow disease and Englishmen : spongiform encephalopathies-Prion disease. Influenza virus, the plague that may return. Conclusions and future predictions.
650 0 $aVirus diseases$xHistory.
650 12 $aVirus Diseases$xhistory.