Infectious Disease: A Very Short Introduction

by Marta L. Wayne and Benjamin M. Bolker

Book Overview

As doctors and biologists have learned, to their dismay, infectious disease is a moving target: new diseases emerge every year, old diseases evolve into new forms, and ecological and socioeconomic upheavals change the transmission pathways by which disease spread. By taking an approach focused on the general evolutionary and ecological dynamics of disease, this Very Short Introduction provides a general conceptual framework for thinking about disease...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199688931
• ISBN13: 9780199688937
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.0" x 4.2" x 7.0"