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Book

Fighting sickness

Call Number

  • J GRAPHIC NOVEL 616.079 MIDT (OSH)

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Publication Information

Chicago : World Book, a Scott Fetzer Company, [2014]

Physical Description

32 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.

Summary

"A graphic nonfiction volume that introduces the human body's immune response to infectious disease"--

Contents

  • The immune system
  • Microbes
  • Infection
  • Disease
  • Spreading disease
  • Bacteria
  • Viruses
  • Hijacking a cell
  • The immune response
  • Helping the immune system
  • Preventing infections.

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