Title Natural history of infectious disease / by Sir Macfarlane Burnet and David O. White

Edition Fourth edition Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1972

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Location	Call no.	Vol.	Availability
MELB	616.909 Bur/Nho 1972		AVAILABLE
MELB SPC THORNE	616.909 Bur/Nho 1972		AVAILABLE

Description x, 278 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm Contents The ecological point of view -- Evolution of infection and defence -- Bacteria -- Protozoa -- Viruses -- Infection and immunity -- Susceptibility and resistance -- How infections spread -- Epidemics and prevalences -- Evolution and survival of host and parasite -- Control of infectious disease -- Antibiotics -- Hospital infections and iatrogenic disease -- Diphtheria -- Influenza -- Tuberculosis -- Plague -- Malaria -- Yellow fever -- Hepatitis, kuru, and slow viruses -- Perils and possibilities: an epilogue Analysis Medicine Infectious diseases Notes First published in 1940 under title: Biological aspects of infectious disease Biological aspects of infectious disease Subject Communicable diseases. Communicable diseases -- Immunology. Communicable diseases. Immunity. Bacterial Infections. Communicable Diseases. Protozoan Infections. Virus Diseases. Communicable Diseases -- immunology. Communicable Diseases. Immunity. Author White, David O. LC no. 74174264 ISBN 0521083893 052109688X (paperback)

Other Titles Biological aspects of infectious disease FORMERLY Biological aspects of infectious disease

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