Emerging and Endemic Pathogens: Advances in Surveillance, Detection and Identification by Kevin P. O'Connell, Alexander Sulakvelidze, Lela Bakanidze, Evan W. Skowronski (Paperback, 2010)
It is a truism among biologists that an organism's phenotype is the product of both its genotype and its environment. An organism's genotype contains the total informational potential of the individual, while its environment shapes the expression of the ge- type, influences the rate of mutation and occurrence of modifications, and ultimately determines the likelihood that the genotype (or fractions thereof) will survive into the next generation. In the relationship between host and pathogen, therefore, each forms a part of the environment of the other, mutually influencing the biology of both partners on scales ranging from the life history of individuals to the fate of populations or entire species. Molecular biologists working on problems in pathogenesis generally think of the host organism as the pathogen's environment and perhaps occasionally consider the pathogen as part of the host's environment. However, because environment can be defined at many scales, so, too, can phenotypes: if a pathogen, as a species, is c- sidered to exist in a host, as a species, then among its phenotypes is the nature of the pandemic disease it can cause within the host community. The contributors to the proceedings of this NATO Advanced Research Workshop have treated the interplay of environment and genotype in the host-pathogen relationship and its relationship to the problem of emerging infectious disease at both the macroscopic and microscopic/ molecular levels along this continuum of scale (with some human history thrown in at times for good measure).
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Springer
ISBN-13
9789048196395
eBay Product ID (ePID)
105378895
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Microbiology
Author
Kevin P. O'Connell, Alexander Sulakvelidze, Lela Bakanidze, Evan w. Skowronski
Publication Name
Emerging and Endemic Pathogens: Advances in Surveillance, Detection and Identification
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Medicine, Biology, Healthcare System
Publication Year
2010
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
154 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
235mm
Item Width
155mm
Item Weight
560g
Additional Product Features
Series Title
Nato Science for Peace and Security Series A: Chemistry and Biology
Editor
Lela Bakanidze, Kevin P. O'Connell, Alexander Sulakvelidze, Evan w. Skowronski
Country/Region of Manufacture
Netherlands
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