Virus Hunt : The search for the origin of HIV/AIDs
Dorothy H. Crawford
Bok Engelsk 2013 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Oxford : : OUP Oxford, , 2013.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (272 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - The hunt for the origin of the AIDS virus began over twenty years ago. It was a journey that went around the world and involved painstaking research to unravel how, when, and where the virus first infected humans.Dorothy H. Crawford traces the story back to the remote rain forests of Africa - home to the primates that carry the ancestral virus - and reveals how HIV-1 first jumped from chimpanzees to humans in rural south east Cameroon. Examining how this happened, and how it then travelled back to Colonial west central Africa where it eventually exploded as a pandemic, she asks why and how it
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| Emner | Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Diseases HIV HIV Infections Vis mer... History
Humanities Immune System Diseases Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes Lentivirus Lentivirus Infections Lentiviruses, Primate Organisms RNA Virus Infections RNA Viruses Retroviridae Retroviridae Infections Sexually Transmitted Diseases Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral Slow Virus Diseases Vertebrate Viruses Virus Diseases Viruses AIDS (Disease) -- Diagnosis. AIDS (Disease). HIV (Viruses) -- Research -- History. HIV (Viruses). Human immunodefiency viruses. Retroviruses. Communicable Diseases Health & Biological Sciences Public Health aids hiv opprinnelse epidemologi |
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| Dewey | 616.979201 . - 616.9792
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| ISBN | 9780199641147
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