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Wayne, Marta; Bolker, Benjamin

 
9780192858511: Infectious Disease: A Very Short Introduction
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ISBN 10 : 0192858513 ISBN 13 : 9780192858511
Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2023

Synopsis

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Infectious disease is a moving target: new diseases emerge every year, old diseases evolve into new forms, and ecological and socioeconomic upheavals change the transmission pathways that spread disease. But where does disease come from? How is it transmitted from one person to another? And why are some individuals more susceptible than others?

In this Very Short Introduction, Marta Wayne and Benjamin Bolker address these questions through the lenses of ecology and evolution. Assessing the management of outbreaks of diseases such as influenza, HIV/AIDS, cholera, and COVID-19, they provide specific examples to illustrate why major diseases still threaten populations all over the world.

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À propos de l?auteur

Marta L. Wayne is an evolutionary geneticist at the University of Florida. She has studied virus evolutionary ecology in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, a model system for disease in both humans and mosquitoes.


Benjamin M. Bolker is a theoretical ecologist at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. He has studied the dynamics of disease in organisms as diverse as humans, red grouse, gopher tortoises, and fruit flies.

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0192858513
ISBN 13 
9780192858511
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
2
Nombre de pages
160
Coordonnées du fabricant
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9780199688937: Infectious Disease: A Very Short Introduction

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ISBN 10 :  0199688931 ISBN 13 :  9780199688937
Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2015
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