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Author Crawford, Dorothy H.

Title Deadly companions : how microbes shaped our history / Dorothy H. Crawford.

Imprint Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  614.4 C856d 2007    ---  Available
Description xiv, 250 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 228-240) and index.
Contents How it all began -- Our microbial inheritance -- Microbes jump species -- Crowds, filth and poverty -- Microbes go global -- Famine and devastation -- Deadly companions revealed -- The fight back.
Subject Epidemics -- History.
Infection -- History.
Communicable diseases -- History.
Diseases and history.
Communicable Diseases -- history.
Bacterial Infections -- history.
Disease Outbreaks -- history.
Parasitic Diseases -- history.
Virus Diseases -- history.
ISBN 0192807196 (alk. paper)
9780192807199 (alk. paper)
Standard No. NLM 101315437
NZ1 11567204
AU@ 000042186445
IG# 9780192807199

 
    
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