People, parasites, and plowshares :: learning from our body's most terrifying invaders /

An account of the biology, behavior, and history of parasites, following the interplay between these fascinating life forms and human society over thousands of years. Despommier focuses on long-term host-parasite associations, which have evolved to avoid or even subvert the human immune system.

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1. Verfasser: Despommier, Dickson D.
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York : Columbia University Press, [2013]
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Zusammenfassung:An account of the biology, behavior, and history of parasites, following the interplay between these fascinating life forms and human society over thousands of years. Despommier focuses on long-term host-parasite associations, which have evolved to avoid or even subvert the human immune system.
Dickson D. Despommier's vivid, visceral account of the biology, behavior, and history of parasites follows the interplay between these fascinating life forms and human society over thousands of years. He focuses on long-term host-parasite associations, which have evolved to avoid or even subvert the human immune system. Some do great damage to their hosts, while others have signed a kind of?peace treaty" in exchange for their long lives within them. They also, Despommier shows as he discusses these organisms with the reader, practice clever survival strategies that doctors hope to mimic.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xxi, 213 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780231535267
0231535260
9780231161947
0231161948

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