UID:
almafu_9959235851202883
Format:
1 online resource (283 p.)
ISBN:
0-19-770236-8
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1-280-45132-7
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9786610451326
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1-4237-4058-0
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0-19-535706-X
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1-60256-048-X
Series Statement:
Oxford scholarship online
Content:
Goudsmit traces the ecology and evolution of HIV, beginning from its origin in a related and relatively benign virus infecting monkeys through to its breakout in human hosts. He also demonstrates the long-term history of virus-host interaction.
Note:
Previously issued in print: 1997.
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Most Disarming Virus; 2 The Rise of the Western AIDS Epidemic; 3 HIV Baby Booms: Epidemics Rise and Fall; 4 The Rain Forest Roots of HIV-1; 5 HIV-0 and HIV-1: The Chimpanzee Connection; 6 HIV-2: The Sooty Mangabey Connection; 7 Searching for SIV in Monkey Mummies; 8 Beyond SIV and HIV: The Cat Connection; 9 The Mystery Suitor: HIV's Next Move; 10 Viral Sex and AIDS: Response to Instability; 11 Retrovirus Survival: The Human Threat; 12 Human Survival: Vaccines to Disarm HIV; Epilogue; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-512496-0
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-509728-9
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1093/oso/9780195097283.001.0001
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