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1) Viruses
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Presents photos, illustrations, and facts about viruses. Discusses how viruses work in the human body, different viral diseases, retroviruses, and treatments for emerging viruses. Includes a glossary, index, and resources for further information.
3) Viruses
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Examines the life cycles of viruses, the ways they affect their hosts, and how their ability to mutate presents a challenge to the medical community.
4) Viruses
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Everything you ever wanted to know about viruses! Viruses have been infecting humankind for as long as we can tell. Learn about the discovery of vaccinations, Louis Pasteur and his fight against microorganisms, the first appearance of the electron microscope, the nature of viruses and their composition, and how viral infections begin and develop. In the battle against infectious agents, we are slowly unraveling the secrets of living matter.
5) Viruses
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Viruses are the simplest forms of life-so primitive in biological terms that for some years the scientific community debated whether they should even be regarded as living organisms. This program examines how viruses, though incapable of reproducing outside of living cells, have developed refined strategies for reconfiguring the host organism into one that serves exclusively as a virus breeder. Sophisticated computer graphics and microscopy allow...
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Viruses are big news. From pandemics such as HIV, swine flu, and SARS, we are constantly being bombarded with information about new lethal infections. In this Very Short Introduction Dorothy Crawford demonstrates how clever these entities really are. From their discovery and the unravelling of their intricate structures.--
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"Viruses are behind many types of illness, from mild colds to severe diseases like acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Even COVID-19 itself is mild for some and severe for others. Viruses have been found all over the Earth. Researchers estimate that they are ten times more common than bacteria. These tiny germs, that are not even a cell themselves, invade other organisms and are an unavoidable...
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Bacteria and viruses are among the oldest agents on Earth and reveal much about the planet's past and evolution. As scientists and doctors make progress in fighting the harmful effects of bacteria and viruses, they also often make discoveries that can lead to life-saving vaccines and antibiotics, making the fields of microbiology and biochemistry more intriguing and challenging than ever. In this volume, readers will venture into the realm of bacteria...
16) World of viruses
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Uses a graphic novel format to introduce the microscopic world of viruses and the battle of science to keep them under control, discussing well-known viruses such as foot and mouth disease, HIV, the flu, and HPV, as well as the lesser-known beneficial role that some viruses play.
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Consider these facts from Carl Zimmer's book, "A Planet of Viruses": If you put all the viruses in the ocean on a scale, they would equal the weight of 75 million blue whales. And if you lined up all those viruses end to end, "they would stretch out past the nearest 60 galaxies." In 17th-century England, Zimmer writes, cures for the rhinovirus, or the common cold, included a blend of gunpowder, eggs, fried cow dung, and suet. Today, he says, doctors...
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The world is full of tiny viruses and bacteria that can be seen only through a microscope. Some bacteria can be helpful, but others cause diseases such as typhoid fever. Viruses can cause deadly diseases such as COVID-19. Young readers will get all the facts about bacteria and viruses, including their similarities and differences, how they cause infections, and how people can keep dangerous germs from spreading.
20) Giant Viruses
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Mimivirus (microbe mimicking virus), published in Nature in 2003 is the first member of a family of unsuspected organisms, some very different from each other, all astonishing different in their size, their genes and their ‘performances’ – one of them has ‘survived’ 30 000 years in the Siberian permafrost. These giant viruses seem to fill the gap between the viral world and the living cell world. Do they represent a new branch of life on...