Evolution of Infectious Disease

Name: Evolution of Infectious Disease
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ISBN: 9780195111392

ISBN-10: 0195111397

ISBN-13: 9780195111392

Edition: 1997 (Reprint)

Authors: Paul W. Ewald

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Findings from the field of evolutionary biology are yielding dramatic insights for health scientists, especially those involved in the fight against infectious diseases. This book is the first in-depth presentation of these insights. In detailing why the pathogens that cause malaria, smallpox, tuberculosis, and AIDS have their special kinds of deadliness, the book shows how efforts to control virtually all diseases would benefit from a more thorough application of evolutionary principles. When viewed from a Darwinian perspective, a pathogen is not simply a disease-causing agent, it is a self-replicating organism driven by evolutionary pressures to pass on as many copies of itself as…

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List price: $58.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/10/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 9.25" wide x 6.14" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English




Why This Book?



Symptomatic Treatment (Or How to Bind The Origin of Species to The Physician's Desk Reference)



Vectors, Vertical Transmission, and the Evolution of Virulence



How to be Severe without Vectors



When Water Moves like a Mosquito



Attendant-Borne Transmission (Or How are Doctors and Nurses like Mosquitoes, Machetes, and Moving Water?)



War and Disease



AIDS: Where Did it Come From and Where is it Going?



The Fight Against AIDS: Biomedical Strategies and HIV's Evolutionary Responses



A Look Backward...



...And a Glimpse Forward (Or WHO Needs Darwin)