Now in full color, the Fourth Edition of this text gives students a thorough understanding of microbial agents and the pathophysiology of microbial diseases. The text facilitates learning and recall by emphasizing unifying principles and paradigms, rather than forcing students to memorize isolated facts by rote. Case studies with problem-solving ...
The first book in best-selling author Robert Ludlum's new paperback series, co-written by Gayle Lynds, involves a love-struck Army doctor, his molecular biologist fiancee, and a horrific new virus that kills its victims by causing their lungs to fill up with blood. Just when the fiancee discovers a cure for the disease, crooks ransack her lab and ...
In this seventh thrilling release in Marjorie M. Lius "New York Times" bestselling paranormal series, a young doctor finds herself caught up in a bioweapons plot, and only Amiri, a shape-shifting member of Dirk & Steele, can protect her--and win her heart.Leisure Books
This new edition extracts the most important information on microbiology and infectious diseases and presents it in a concise, succinct fashion to prepare students for the USMLE. The book also serves as an excellent course review, with illustrations, review questions, and high-yield case study sections. This edition features 70 new images. "High ...
"Basic Virology" is an introductory text for the student or for the researcher who needs a solid foundation in virology and its relationship to modern biology, focusing on the fundamentals of virology while stressing the basic concepts of molecular biology and immunology. This second edition features thoroughly updated material on HIV treatment, ...
A lethal strain of virus vanishes from a lab in Washington, D.C., unleashing an epidemic - and the world thinks Lucy Clark's dead father is to blame. The plague may be the least of Lucy's problems. There's her mother, Isifrid, a peddler of high-end hat wear who's also a crack-head and pagan theologist. There's her twelve-year-old half sister, ...
Frank Hartman is a brilliant virologist whose discoveries make him the one man who stands in the way of sciences plan to "improve" the entire human race. This taut thriller takes the reader a few years into the future, and shows the promise and danger of new genetic medical techniques.
Designed for students learning about viruses for the first time (the undergraduate or graduate level), "Fundamentals of Molecular Virology" is presented in a style which relates to today's students and professors. The text approaches learning about virology by presenting a set of chapters each of which covers a specific virus family, using one or ...
An archaeologist in Central Europe, a microbiologist in the Republic of Georgia, and a "virus hunter" in the United States, all working independently of each other, begin to see different parts of a puzzle that suggest a new phase of human evolution is upon us. Winner of the 2000 Nebula Award for Best Novel.
Completely revised and updated, the new edition of this groundbreaking text integrates basic virology with pathophysiological conditions to examine the connection between virology and human disease. Most virology textbooks focus on the molecular biology involved without adequate reference to physiology. This text focuses on viruses that infect ...
The deadly hantavirus has killed dozens of Native Americans, so when a reputable pharmaceutical company claims to have developed a vaccine against the deadly disease, it should be good news. But when ImmuVac asks Dr Isabel McLain to conduct a clinical trial of the vaccine on the Blackfeet reservation in Browning, Montana, the proposal gets a ...
In a small college town mysterious black rocks suddenly appear. The people who touch them come down with a curious set of "afflictions." They become gregarious, environmentally conscious, and telepathic. And they also develop a particular attachment to dogs. When the afflicted start constructing a spaceship, the whole town begins to worry.
Completely revised and updated to reflect important advances in the field, "Principles of Virology, Second Edition" continues to fill the gap between simple introductory texts and very advanced reviews of major virus families, introducing upper-level undergraduates, graduate students, and medical students to all aspects of virology. The second ...
Viruses are disarmingly small and simple. Nevertheless, the smallpox virus killed over 300 million people in the twentieth century before it was eradicated in 1980. The AIDS virus, HIV, is now the world's biggest killer infection and is the single most common cause of death in Africa. In recent years, the outbreaks of several lethal viruses such ...
Established for 20 years as the definitive virology reference, the two-volume classic "Fields Virology" is in its thoroughly revised, updated Fifth Edition. More than 100 world-renowned investigators provide encyclopedic coverage of every aspect of contemporary virology, including the pathogenesis of viral diseases and the molecular biology, ...
As January 1, 2000 approaches, a suicidal FBI agent is called in to investigate a computer virus and its possible links to previously unknown evidence of extraterrestrial life.
Understanding Viruses is the ideal text for the modern undergraduate virology course. With a full-color design and rich pedagogy, the text provides a strong introduction to viruses in our daily lives and viral diseases from an epidemiological and global perspective. Its unique approach combines historical perspectives along with the clinical and ...
Centuries after a disastrous plague wiped out most of the original colonists, the Durallium Company returns to the planet GP to try and reclaim their investment, only to find that the disease hasn't died out. Arriving on the planet to test a new vaccine, an anthropologist learns that the natives have survived and flourished as an all-female ...
Offering an original and incisive critique of the rise and fall of HIV, this provocative narrative, written from the insider's perspective, exposes the politics played out among some of the world's most influential virologists, the vested interests involved in defending the orthodoxies of HIV and AZT, and the growing dissention within the ...
The author has incorporated the comments of numerous reviewers and users into this revision, and has expanded coverage of plant viruses and the molecular basis for antiviral drugs and vaccines. The material on the pathogenesis of AIDS, prions, emerging diseases (such as Ebola) and taxonomy has been thoroughly updated, and the diagrams have been ...
If Lara doesn't make love soon, her cells will fail to regenerate and she'll die. Unfortunately, her only option is an enemy, Rystani starpilot Xander, her abductor and a member of the race who has been battling hers since the beginning of time. Insufferably smug, Xander issues an ultimatum: He'll make love to Alara only if she will use her psi ...
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