Farming Human Pathogens [electronic resource] : Ecological Resilience and Evolutionary Process / by Robert G. Wallace, Deborah Wallace, Rodrick Wallace.

By: Wallace, Robert G [author.]Contributor(s): Wallace, Deborah [author.] | Wallace, Rodrick [author.] | SpringerLink (Online service)Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2009Description: IX, 216 p. online resourceContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780387922133Subject(s): Computer science | Public health | Health informatics | Epidemiology | Bioinformatics | Computer Science | Computational Biology/Bioinformatics | Public Health | Health Informatics | EpidemiologyAdditional physical formats: Printed edition:: No titleDDC classification: 570.285 LOC classification: QH324.2-324.25Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
Formal theory I -- Formal theory II -- Coevolution -- Eigen#x2019;s paradox -- Farming human pathogens -- Final Remarks.
In: Springer eBooksSummary: Farming Human Pathogens: Ecological Resilience and Evolutionary Process introduces a cutting-edge formalism based on the asymptotic limit theorems of information theory to describe how punctuated shifts in mesoscale ecosystems can entrain patterns of gene expression and organismal evolution. The development is applied to several infectious diseases that have evolved in response to the world as humans have made it. Many pathogens emerging from underneath epidemiological control are 'farmed' in the metaphorical sense, as the evolution of drug resistant HIV makes clear, but some, like avian influenza, emerge quite literally as the result of new practices in industrial farming. Effective disease control in the 21st Century must necessarily involve broad economic and social reform for reasons embedded in the basics of pathogen evolution. .
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Formal theory I -- Formal theory II -- Coevolution -- Eigen#x2019;s paradox -- Farming human pathogens -- Final Remarks.

Farming Human Pathogens: Ecological Resilience and Evolutionary Process introduces a cutting-edge formalism based on the asymptotic limit theorems of information theory to describe how punctuated shifts in mesoscale ecosystems can entrain patterns of gene expression and organismal evolution. The development is applied to several infectious diseases that have evolved in response to the world as humans have made it. Many pathogens emerging from underneath epidemiological control are 'farmed' in the metaphorical sense, as the evolution of drug resistant HIV makes clear, but some, like avian influenza, emerge quite literally as the result of new practices in industrial farming. Effective disease control in the 21st Century must necessarily involve broad economic and social reform for reasons embedded in the basics of pathogen evolution. .

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