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IJE Advance Access originally published online on April 12, 2007
International Journal of Epidemiology 2007 36(3):693-694; doi:10.1093/ije/dym035
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2007; all rights reserved.

Book Reviews

Battle of the Genomes: The Struggle for Survival in a Microbial World. HM Lachman Enfield

Andrew E Fry

E-mail: afry@well.ox.ac.uk

Battle of the Genomes: The Struggle for Survival in a Microbial World. HM Lachman Enfield, New Hampshire: Science Publishers, 2006, pp. 334 , ISBN 1-57808-432-6.

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‘Battle of the Genomes’ presents us with what, at times, seems like a rather traditional history of infectious disease—Hippocrates, Galen, Koch, Pasteur, Snow, Fleming, Jenner—all make their customary appearance. However, the book interlaces this conventional narrative with observations on molecular pathogenesis and the co-evolutionary struggle between humans and their parasites. The author extends the history of medicine to include the recent birth of molecular genetics, from the discovery of the double helix to the sequencing of human genome, and introduces the reader to the way in . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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