Field Guide to Germs Revised and Updated

Name: Field Guide to Germs Revised and Updated
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ISBN: 9781400030514

ISBN-10: 140003051X

ISBN-13: 9781400030514

Edition: 2nd 2002 (Revised)

Authors: Wayne Biddle

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From the ravages of the Ebola virus in Zaire to outbreaks of pneumonic plague in India and drug-resistant TB in New York City, contagious diseases are fighting back against once-unconquerable modern medicine. Public concern about infectious disease is on the rise as newspapers trumpet the arrivals of new germs and the reemergence of old ones. In A Field Guide to Germs, Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer Wayne Biddle brings readers face to face with nearly one hundred of the best-known (in terms of prevalence, power, historical importance, or even literary interest) of the myriad pathogens that live in and around the human population. Along with physical descriptions of the organisms and…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 6/25/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.13" wide x 8.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Introduction


adenoviruses


anthrax (Bacillus anthracis)


arboviruses


arenaviruses


bites


Bordetella pertussis (whooping cough)


Borrelia burgdorferi (Lyme disease)


Brucella


Campylobacter


Candida albicans


chikungunya/o'nyong-nyong viruses


Chinese restaurant syndrome


Chlamydia


cholera (Vibrio cholerae)


Clostridium


Congo-Crimean/Rift Valley/California/St. Louis viruses


coronaviruses


Cryptosporidium


cytomegaloviruses


dengue


diphtheria (Corynebacterium diphtheriae)


dysentery


E. coli


Ehrlichia


Enterococcus


enteroviruses


Epstein-Barr virus


Fort Bragg (Leptospira)


Giardia lamblia


hantaviruses


Helicobacter pylori


Hemophilus


hepatitis


herpes


HIV (human immunodeficiency virus)


influenza (flu)


Legionella


Listeria monocytogenes


mad cow


Marburg/Ebola viruses


measles


mumps


mycobacteria


Neisseria gonorrhoeae (gonorrhea)


Neisseria meningitidis


papillomaviruses


parainfluenza viruses/respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)


Plasmodium (malaria)


pneumococcus


polio


Q fever


rabies


rhinoviruses


Rickettsia


Rocky Mountain spotted fever


rotavirus/Norwalk


Salmonella


San Joaquin fever (Coccidioides immitis)


slapped cheek disease (parvovirus B19)


smallpox


Staphylococcus


Streptococcus


syphilis (Treponema pallidum)


tinea


Trichinella


tuberculosis


typhoid (Salmonella typhi)


typhus


varicella-zoster virus


West Nile virus


worms


yellow fever


Yersinia pestis (plague)


Zika fever


Notes to the Introduction


Selected Bibliography


Index


Acknowledgments