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Diseases and human evolution /
"Recent interest in new diseases, such as HIV/AIDS and Ebola, and the resurgence of older diseases like tuberculosis has fostered questions about the history of human infectious diseases. How did they evolve? Where did they originate? What natural factors have stalled the progression of disease...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albuquerque :
University of New Mexico Press,
[2006]
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| Edición: | 1st paperbound print. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- The war between microbes and men
- Early humans and their diseases
- The seeds of change
- Mosquitoes, malaria, and gene wars
- Invitation to a minute worm : the schistosomes
- Braving new worlds : invisible enemies of settlers
- Domesticated animals and disease
- Cows, mycobacteria, and tuberculosis
- The moral disease : leprosy
- The coming of civilization
- Syphilis : the great change artist
- Memories of smallpox
- Pestilence, plague, and rats
- Of lice and men : plus ticks, mites, and chiggers
- Marching to a new world order : European expansion and the Industrial Revolution
- Easy route to fame and gripe : cholera, the salmonella gang, and other prominent gut bugs
- Transoceanic hitchhikers : yellow fever and its Dengue cousin
- Food for thought : the mystery diseases
- The globalization of influenza
- Diseases of modern civilization
- The new viral wars and sleeping dragons
- Back to the future.