The invisible enemy A natural history of viruses

In Invisible Enemy, Dorothy Crawford offers clear answers to these and many other questions. She shows precisely how viruses, with their amazing ability to mutate, have caused devastating diseases in the past, and continue to pose one of the greatest challenges to science. A virus is disarmingly sma...

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Tác giả chính: Crawford, Dorothy H.
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Được phát hành: Oxford,New York Oxford University Press 2000
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