Infectious disease : a Scientific American reader

Record details

ISBN: 9780226742649 (pbk.)
ISBN: 0226742644 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9780226742632 (hbk.)
ISBN: 0226742636 (hbk.)
Physical Description: print
326 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

Evolution and the origins of disease / Randolph M. Nesse and George C. Williams -- Are viruses alive? / Luis P. Villarreal -- New hope for defeating rotavirus / Roger I. Glass -- Capturing a killer flu virus / Jeffery K. Taubenberger, Ann H. Reid and Thomas G. Fanning -- The unmet challenges of hepatitis C / Adrian M. Di Bisceglie and Bruce R. Bacon -- Hope in a vial / Carol Ezzell -- A new assault on HIV / Gary Stix -- A cure for rabies? / Rodney E. Willoughby, Jr. -- Emerging viruses / Bernard Le Guenno -- Beyond chicken soup / William A. Haseltine -- The bacteria behind ulcers / Martin J. Blaser -- The challenges of STDs / Philip E. Ross -- Can chlamydia be stopped? / David M. Ojcius, Toni Darville and Patrik M. Bavoil -- Tackling malaria / Claire Panosian Dunavan -- Attacking anthrax / John A.T. Young and R. John Collier -- The prion diseases / Stanley B. Prusiner -- Detecting mad cow disease / Stanley B. Prusiner -- Infectious diseases and the immune system / William E. Paul -- Immunity's early-warning system / Luke A.J. O'Neill -- The long arm of the immune system / Jacques Banchereau -- Intrigue at the immune synapse / Daniel M. Davis -- Peacekeepers of the immune system / Zoltan Fehervari and Shimon Sakaguchi -- New predictors of disease / Abner Louis Notkins -- Taming lupus / Moncef Zouali -- Preparing for a pandemic / W. Wayt Gibbs and Christine Soares -- If smallpox strikes Portland ... / Chris L. Barrett, Stephen G. Eubank and James P. Smith -- Is global warming harmful to health? / Paul R. Epstein -- The challenge of antibiotic resistance / Stuart B. Levy -- Behind enemy lines / K.C. Nicolaou and Christopher N.C. Boddy -- An antibiotic resistance fighter / Gary Stix.