epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2007-12-31 | Author:Steven Johnson

IT IS POSSIBLE SNOW’S INTENSE ROUND OF QUESTIONING may have, on its own, diminished the spread of the epidemic. We know from Snow’s own account that he spoke with hundreds ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-07-11 | Author:Laurie Garrett

13 The Revenge of the Germs, or Just Keep Inventing New Drugs DRUG-RESISTANT BACTERIA, VIRUSES, AND PARASITES Consider the difference in size between some of the very tiniest and the ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2013-01-09 | Author:Jeffrey C. Pommerville [Pommerville, Jeffrey C.]

Other Respiratory Viruses Also Produce Pneumonia A few other viruses can cause LRT infections in adults. SARS. Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) was first reported in southeastern China in spring ...

epub |eng | 2015-11-18 | Author:Eugene Toy

TREATMENT AND PREVENTION Several antiviral drugs have been developed to treat HSV infections, including acyclovir, valacyclovir, and famciclovir. All of these drugs function as inhibitors of viral DNA synthesis and ...

epub |eng | 2008-05-06 | Author:Carl Zimmer [Zimmer, Carl]

ASSEMBLING ASSASSINS Among its many accomplishments, open-source evolution has produced a lot of ways for us to get sick. When Kiyoshi Shiga discovered Shigella, he believed it was a distinct ...

mobi |eng | 2014-11-04 | Author:Kip Thorne

(a) Karl Jansky and the antenna with which he discovered, in 1952, cosmic radio waves from our galaxy, (b) Grote Reber, ca 1940. (c) The world’s first radio telescope, constructed ...

epub, mobi |deu | 2013-09-29 | Author:Quammen, David

57 Im Affenwald Rhesusaffen sind nicht die einzige Affenart, die Herpes B in sich trägt. Das gleiche Virus hat man auch bei anderen asiatischen Affenarten gefunden, so bei Javaneraffen (Macaca ...

epub |eng | 2013-12-22 | Author:Tak W. Mak & Mary E. Saunders & Bradley D. Jett [Mak, Tak W. & Saunders, Mary E. & Jett, Bradley D.]

III Toxoids As described in Chapter 13, the disease caused by a pathogen may be entirely due to its production of exotoxins. Thus, vaccinating a host against the exotoxin protects ...

epub |eng | 2012-12-19 | Author:Doan, Thao & Melvold, Roger & Viselli, Susan & Waltenbaugh, Carl [Doan, Thao]

Figure 14.2 Asthma. Asthma is a reversible airway obstruction often caused by the release of inflammatory mediators from mast cells upon encounter with allergen. These inflammatory mediators cause the loosening ...

epub |eng | 2011-04-11 | Author:Abraham L Kierszenbaum & Laura Tres [Kierszenbaum, Abraham L & Tres, Laura]

HYPODERMIS (SUPERFICIAL FASCIA) The hypodermis, or subcutaneous layer of the skin, is a deeper continuation of the dermis. It consists of loose connective tissue and adipose cells forming a layer ...

mobi |eng | 2008-05-06 | Author:Carl Zimmer

ASSEMBLING ASSASSINS Among its many accomplishments, open-source evolution has produced a lot of ways for us to get sick. When Kiyoshi Shiga discovered Shigella, he believed it was a distinct ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-14 | Author:Zimmer, Carl [Zimmer, Carl]

Proteins like APOBEC3 disable endogenous retroviruses, but they don’t eliminate them. Over millions of years, our genomes have picked up a vast amount of DNA from dead viruses. Each of ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-07-17 | Author:Stephen Harrod Buhner [Buhner, Stephen Harrod]

Cultivation and Collection The plant is generally cultivated from seeds, but it will, so they say, apparently sprout easily from stem and root cuttings as well—strip or prune off the ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-10-01 | Author:David Quammen [Quammen, David]

66 Anderson and May were theoreticians who worked much with other people’s data. So is Edward C. Holmes. Unlike them, he’s a specialist in viral evolution, one of the world’s ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-06-20 | Author:Dunn, Rob [Dunn, Rob]

10 From Flight to Fight In the case of Bakhul, the villagers would chase back, but only when Jim Corbett came to town. Corbett was a young man, a boy ...