| Publication |
Oxford, Heinemann Library, 2001.
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| Description |
48pBlack Spine
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| Series |
Microlife
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| Summary/Abstract |
Explore details of how micro-organisms cause different diseases, giving examples of how these diseases can be prevented and cured, as well as how the fight against disease is likely to develop in the future.
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| Contents |
Viruses and Vectors
Fighting the Viruses
Immunization
Aids-killer without a cure
Rabies - the fearsome virus
Influenza - the coming epidemic?
Smallpox - a disease defeated
Bacterial and Biofilms
Antibiotics
Tuberculosis - return of a killer
Infectious fungi
Protistan parasites
Malaria - the efficient killer
Malaria - the search for a solution
Helminth horrors
Microbe mutations
Emerging diseases
DNA vaccines - the shape of things to come?
Biological weapons
Glossary
Index
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| Standard Number |
0431092753 Pb.
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