Deadliest enemy : our war against killer germs
Record details
- ISBN: 9780316269650
- ISBN: 0316269654
- ISBN: 9780316343688
- ISBN: 0316343684
- ISBN: 9780316343695
- ISBN: 0316343692
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Physical Description:
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1 online resource - Publisher: New York, NY : Little, Brown and Company, 2017.
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | Black swans and red alerts -- Annals of public health -- White coats and worn shoes -- The threat matrix -- The natural history of germs -- The new world order -- Means of transmission: bats, bugs, lungs, and penises -- Vaccines: the sharpest arrow in our quiver -- Malaria, AIDS, and TB: lest we forget -- Gain of function and dual use: the Frankenstein scenario -- Bioterror: opening Pandora's box -- Ebola: out of Africa -- SARS and MERS: harbingers of things to come -- Mosquitoes: public health enemy number one -- Zika: expecting the unexpected -- Antimicrobials: the tragedy of the commons -- Fighting the resistance -- Influenza: the king of infectious diseases -- Pandemic: from unspeakable to inevitable -- Taking influenza off the table -- Battle plan for survival. |
Source of Description Note: | Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 13, 2017). |
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