Index

AIDS. See HIV

(^) algae, climate and, 43
(^) allergies, immune system and, 13
(^) Andromeda Strain, The (film), 74
(^) antibiotics: discovery of, 36 – 37 ; drug resistance and, 39 ; overprescription of, 11 – 12
(^) antiviral medications, 84
(^) APOBEC
3 protein,^52
(^) Arrowsmith (Lewis), 36
(^) avian leukosis, 46 , 48 – 49. See also retroviruses
bacteria: biofilm and, 39 ; drug resistant, 12 , 38 , 39 ; photosynthetic, 43 , 45 ; size of, 5. See also
bacteriophages
(^) bacteriophages: abundance of, 43 ; debates over, 35 – 36 , 37 – 38 ; discovery of, 34 ; genetic engineering
and, 38 – 39 ; lytic, 35 – 36 ; in marine environment, 42 – 43 ; as medicine, 36 , 37 – 39 ; picture of, 32 ;
temperate, 35 – 36 , 44 ; ubiquity of, 37 – 38. See also bacteria
(^) bats, animal-to-human leap of viruses and, 75 , 76
(^) Beijerinck, Martinus, 4
(^) Bieniasz, Paul, 51 – 52
(^) biological weapons, smallpox as, 82 , 86
(^) birds: influenza and, 17 – 19 ; West Nile virus and, 65 – 69
(^) Bordet, Jules, 35 – 36
(^) Boylston, Zabdiel, 83
(^) Bradfordcoccus, 90
(^) Bronx Zoo, 65
(^) bubonic plague, bacteriophages and, 36
Cameroon, origins of HIV and, 75
(^) cancer, 24 , 29 , 48 – 51
(^) Carlos (king of Spain), 84
(^) Cave of Crystals, 1 – 2
(^) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 55