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Edited by Scientific American

Infectious Disease

A Scientific American Reader

368 pages, 79 halftones  6 x 9  © 2008
Series: Scientific American Readers

Cloth $65.00

ISBN: 9780226742632   Published October 2008

Paper $22.50

ISBN: 9780226742649   Published September 2008

Evolution and the Origins of Disease

VIRAL INFECTIONS

   Are Viruses Alive?
   Luis P. Villarreal

   New Hope for Defeating Rotavirus
   Roger I. Glass

   Capturing a Killer Flu Virus
   Jeffrey K. Taubenberger, Ann H. Reid and Thomas G. Fanning

   The Unmet Challenges of Hepatitis C
   Adrian M. Di Bisceglie and Bruce R. Bacon

   Hope in a Vial
   Carol Ezzell

   A New Assault on HIV
   Gary Stix

   A Cure for Rabies?
   Rodney E. Willoughby, Jr.

   Beyond Chicken Soup
   William A. Haseltine 
   
INFECTIOUS DISEASE

   The Bacteria behind Ulcers
   Martin J. Blaser
  
   The Challenges of STDs
   Philip E. Ross

   Can Chlamydia Be Stopped?
   David M. Ojcius, Toni Darville and Patrick M. Bavoil

   Tackling Malaria
   Claire Panosian Dunavan

   Attacking Anthrax
   John T. A. Young and R. John Collier

   The Prion Diseases
   Stanley B. Prusiner

   Detecting Mad Cow Disease
   Stanley B. Prusiner

THE IMMUNE SYSTEM

   Infectious Diseases and the Immune System
   William E. Paul

   Immunity's Early-Warning System
   Luke A. J. O'Neill

   The Long Arm of the Immune System
   Jacques Banchereau

   Intrigue at the Immune Synapse
   Daniel M. Davis

   Peacekeepers of the Immune System
   Zoltan Fehervari and Simon Sakaguchi

   New Predictors of Disease
   Abner Louis Notkins

   Taming Lupus
   Moncef Zouali

GLOBAL MANAGEMENT AND TREATMENT ISSUES

   Preparing for a Pandemic
   W. Wayt Gibbs and Christine Soares

   If Smallpox Strikes Portland...
   Chris L. Barrett, Stephen G. Eubank and James P. Smith

   Is Global Warming Harmful to Health?
   Paul R. Epstein

   The Challenge of Antibiotic Resistance
   Stuart B. Levy

   Behind Enemy Lines
   K. C. Nicolaou and Christopher N. C. Boddy

   An Antibiotic Resistance Fighter
   Gary Stix

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