Arno Karlen
The Biography of a Germ
Arno Karlen · 2000
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"The bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb for short) is a tiny, pale spiral, invisible to the naked eye, yet no one could invent a life so ingenious, or one so tied to so many creatures' fates. Arno Karlen takes readers on a journey through Bb's world - its ancestry and evolution, its day-to-day life, its perilous travels through ticks, mice, and deer, and, finally, its collision with humanity. Its life evokes the vast ecological web in which we and Bb are threads."--BOOK JACKET.
First sentence: TO THE NAKED EYE, it is invisible, a nothing.
Book details
- Year
- 2000
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Pantheon
- Editions
- 7
- Pages
- 192
- ISBN
- 9780375401992
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