Infectious Disease: A Very Short Introduction - Softcover

Wayne, Marta; Bolker, Benjamin

 
9780192858511: Infectious Disease: A Very Short Introduction
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0192858513 ISBN 13: 9780192858511
Verlag: OUP Oxford, 2023

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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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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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Verlag
OUP Oxford
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0192858513
ISBN 13 
9780192858511
Einband
Tapa blanda
Auflage
2
Anzahl der Seiten
160
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