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Virus Hunt Dorothy H. Crawford (Emeritus Professor of Medical Microbiology, University of Edinburgh)

Virus Hunt von Dorothy H. Crawford (Emeritus Professor of Medical Microbiology, University of Edinburgh)

Virus Hunt Dorothy H. Crawford (Emeritus Professor of Medical Microbiology, University of Edinburgh)

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Virus Hunt is a tale of scientific endeavour. Tracing the fascinating twenty year quest to find the origin of the virus that causes AIDS, Dorothy H. Crawford takes us on a journey around the world, to recount the vital research that eventually unravelled how, when, and where the virus first infected humans.

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Virus Hunt: The search for the origin of HIV/AIDs Dorothy H. Crawford (Emeritus Professor of Medical Microbiology, University of Edinburgh)

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 was able to spread so widely. From hospital intensive care wards to research laboratories and the African rain forests, this is the wide-ranging story of a killer virus and a tale of scientific endeavour.

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[E]ngaging and informative ... Armed with graphs, maps, and tables, and also with a vast reservoir of research data, Crawford meticulously evaluates and documents a series of scenarios, to piece together a detailed scientific, and also human, picture of HIV. * Alina Oswald, A&U Magazine *

Über Dorothy H. Crawford (Emeritus Professor of Medical Microbiology, University of Edinburgh)

Dorothy H. Crawford has been Assistant Principal for Public Understanding of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh since 2007. Her previous books include The Invisible Enemy (OUP, 2000), Deadly Companions (OUP, 2007), and Viruses: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2011). She was elected a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2001, and awarded an OBE for services to medicine and higher education in 2005.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ; Introduction: a new disease ; 1. The puzzle of HIV-1 ; 2. Tracing HIV to its roots ; 3. The primate connection ; 4. From rain forest to research laboratory ; 5. Timing SIV cpz's jump to humans ; 6. A vital first step for HIV-1 group M ; 7. Beginning the epic journey ; 8. HIV-1 group M meets the challenge ; 9. Past, present, and future pandemics ; References ; Further reading ; Glossary

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GOR012808879
9780199641147
0199641145
Virus Hunt: The search for the origin of HIV/AIDs Dorothy H. Crawford (Emeritus Professor of Medical Microbiology, University of Edinburgh)
Dorothy H. Crawford (Emeritus Professor of Medical Microbiology, University of Edinburgh)
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Oxford University Press
20130627
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