Viruses, pandemics, and immunity [electronic resource] [electronic resource]

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자료유형	e-Book
서명/저자사항	Viruses, pandemics, and immunity [electronic resource] / Arup Chakraborty and Andrey Shaw. [electronic resource].
개인저자	Chakraborty, Arup.  Shaw, Andrey S.
단체저자명	Recorded Books, Inc.
발행사항	[S.l.]: The MIT Press, 2020.
형태사항	1 online resource.
ISBN	9780262363761 9780262363457
발행자번호	EB00825261Recorded Books
요약	How viruses emerge to cause pandemics, how our immune system combats them, and how diagnostic tests, vaccines, and antiviral therapies work. Throughout history, humans have contended with pandemics. History is replete with references to plagues, pestilence, and contagion, but the devastation wrought by pandemics had been largely forgotten by the twenty-first century. Now, the enormous human and economic toll of the rapidly spreading COVID-19 disease offers a vivid reminder that infectious disease pandemics are one of the greatest existential threats to humanity. This book provides an accessible explanation of how viruses emerge to cause pandemics, how our immune system combats them, and how diagnostic tests, vaccines, and antiviral therapies work-- concepts that are a foundation for our public health policies.
일반주제명	Epidemics --Prevention. Immunity. HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases / Contagious. Physical fitness --Health aspects.
분류기호(DDC)	614.58
언어	영어
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