Deadly companions how microbes shaped our history /

Crawford, Dorothy H.

Deadly companions how microbes shaped our history / [electronic resource] : Dorothy H. Crawford. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007. - xiv, 250 p. : ill., maps.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 238-240) and index.

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.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.





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DNLM Uk


Epidemics--History.
Infection--History.
Communicable diseases--History.
Diseases and history.


Electronic books.

RA649 / .C73 2007

614.4