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List Price: £6.99
Our Price: £41.08
Author:
Richard Preston
By Corgi Books
The dramatic and chilling story of an Ebola virus outbreak in a suburban Washington, D.C. laboratory, with descriptions of frightening historical epidemics of rare and lethal viruses. More hair-raising than anything Hollywood could think of, because it's all true.
 NON-FICTION MEDICAL THRILLER..., 2008-02-25
This is a non-fiction book that keeps readers on the edge of their seats, compulsively turning the pages. In it the author gives an education on the possible origins of different deadly hemorrhagic viruses and the devastation that they cause in both animals and humans. The author describes actual outbreaks that occurred between 1967 and 1993. This is done in an engaging, straightforward narrative that reads like a medical thriller.
The nucleus of the story focuses on an outbreak of Ebola virus in Reston, Virginia in the tony county of Fairfax, just outside of Washington, D.C. in 1983. A special, highly trained teamed of Army specialists and scientists secretly converged on that hot spot to try and stop the spread of this deadly virus, as it had a kill rate of ninety percent.
The account that the author gives of the Army's mission is riveting, as is the vivid description of the rain forests and caves of Africa where these hemorrhagic viruses are suspected of originating. The devastation these viruses cause to both animals and humans is horrifying, shocking, and, unfortunately, all too true. The author has managed to make science accessible to the general public and eminently readable. Bravo!
List Price: £33.99
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Author:
Nigel Dimmock, Andrew Easton, Keith Leppard
By WileyBlackwell
 This text book is a must for an introduction to virology, 2000-07-02
This textbook is beneficial for mainly 3rd year science students, explaining new procedures such as polymerase chain reaction and discussing viruses such as Human immunodeficiency virus and oncogenic viruses. The diagrams represented in the book are excellent, offering students of virology an insight into both molecular and clinical virology.
List Price: £71.50
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By Humana Press Inc.,U.S.
Plant Virology Protocols, Second Edition: From viral sequence to protein function, 2008-05-07
Following the considerable success of the first edition of Plant Virology Protocols, this exciting new edition covers the many new techniques that are now applied to the examination and understanding of plant viruses. Each section of Plant Virology Protocols, Second Edition presents the most novel methods and protocols to allow researchers more effective approaches to study plant viruses. The many subjects covered in this important new edition range from techniques for investigating viral nucleic acid sequence, protein analysis and investigation of protein function, techniques for microscopy/GFP visualization and analysis/protein tagging/generation of infectious clones and other such tools, as well as areas of genomics and interactions with host factors and plant-based studies. Plant Virology Protocols, Second Edition: From viral sequence to protein function is indispensable to laboratory investigators studying plant viruses.
Author:
Joseph B. McCormick, Susan Fisher-Hoch, Susan Fischer-Hoch
By Barnes & Noble
Gripping true stories of life-threatening events, 2004-01-18
This is an outstanding book. First-hand true-life recollections of a diverse range of natural disasters across Africa over 3 decades.The authors tell their stories well, putting you right there in the bush. They retain their sense of humanity throughout so you really feel for their patients and their families as human beings. 1 quibble : only towards of the end of the story do they get married; at the very end of the book they both thank their first spouses for their respective sacrifices but you never even get to know their spouses first names what sort of acknowledgement remains anonymous? 2 mysteries : whilst there are plenty of good maps, there are no photos; no pictures of colleagues or patients, and no pictures of the offending Viruses and Bacteria why not? Very good value for money - I've had to pay much more for far lesser books.
List Price: £107.50
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By OUP USA
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