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24 lectures on 4 discs (30 minutes per lecture)

[An] "illustrated guided tour through a realm that is as teeming with exotic life as any rainforest -- and that is just as exciting" --Website

On container: IC1551A-01

Course number 1551

DVDs

Features more than 1,000 engaging visual elements, including eye-catching microscopic photographs, dynamic animations and images, and detailed charts and graphs

Accompanying guidebook contains glossary, biographical notes, and bibliographical references

Bruce E. Fleury, lecturer

Disc 1: Invisible realm -- Stone knives to iron plows -- Angel of death -- Germ theory -- Evolutionary arms race -- Microbial strategies Disc 2: Virulence -- Death by chocolate -- Bambi's revenge -- Germ of laziness -- The 1918 flu: a conspiracy of silence -- The 1918 flu: the Philadelphia story Disc 3: The 1918 flu: the search for the virus -- Immunity: self versus nonself -- Adaptive immunity to the rescue -- AIDS: the quiet killer -- Deadly strategy of AIDS -- Autoimmunity: self versus self Disc 4: Allergies and asthma -- Microbes as weapons -- Pandora's box -- Old world to new -- Close encounters of the microbial kind -- Microbes as friends