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    Infectious disease : a Scientific American reader.

    • Title:Infectious disease : a Scientific American reader.
    •    
    • Related Title:Scientific American.
    • Published/Created:Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
    • Holdings

       
    • Library of Congress Subjects:Communicable diseases.
    • Medical Subjects: Communicable Diseases--Collected Works.
      Bacterial Infections--Collected Works.
      Immune System--microbiology--Collected Works.
      Virus Diseases--Collected Works.
    • Description:326 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
    • ISBN:9780226742649 (paper)
      0226742644 (paper)
      9780226742632 (cloth)
      0226742636 (cloth)
    • Contents:Evolution and the Origins of Disease / Randolph M. Nesse and George C. Williams
      Viral Infections
      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
      Unmet Challenges of Hepatitis C / Adrian M. Di Bisceglie and Bruce R. Bacon
      Hope in a Vial / Carol Ezzell
      New Assault on HIV / Gary Stix
      Cure for Rabies? / Rodney E. Willoughby, Jr.
      Emerging Viruses / Bernard Le Guenno
      Beyond Chicken Soup / William A. Haseltine
      Infectious Disease
      Bacteria behind Ulcers / Martin J. Blaser
      Challenges of STDs / Philip E. Ross
      Can Chlamydia Be Stopped? / David M. Ojcius, Toni Darville and Patrick M. Bavoil
      Tackling Malaria / Claire Panosian Dunavan
      Attacking Anthrax / John A. T. Young and R. John Collier
      Prion Diseases / Stanley B. Prusiner
      Detecting Mad Cow Disease / Stanley B. Prusiner
      Immune System
      Infectious Diseases and the Immune System / William E. Paul
      Immunity's Early-Warning System / Luke A. J. O'Neill
      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
      Global Management and Treatment Issues
      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
      Challenge of Antibiotic Resistance / Stuart B. Levy
      Behind Enemy Lines / K. C. Nicolaou and Christopher N. C. Boddy
      Antibiotic Resistance Fighter / Gary Stix.
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