"Fighting Global Infectious Disease"
Dr. Dyann Wirth

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  1. Chapter One: Why are Infectious Diseases Still a Problem?
  2. Chapter Two: Development of Resistance to Malarial Drugs
  3. Chapter Three: Challenges of Infectious Disease Like Tuberculosis
  4. Chapter Four: Malaria: Life Cycle and Transmission
  5. Chapter Five: Co-evolution Of Malaria and Sickle-Cell Anemia
  6. Chapter Six: Applying Genomic Science To The Malaria Problem
  7. Chapter Seven: Looking Closely at Gene Diversity in the Malarial Parasite
  8. Chapter Eight: Evolution of the Malarial Genome via the Human Immune System
  9. Chapter Nine: Thinking about Malaria through the Lens of Influenza
  10. Chapter Ten: The Importance of Tracking Resistance in the Malarial Genome
  11. Chapter Eleven: Using "Molecular Barcodes" to Identify Parasite Populations
  12. Chapter Twelve: Audience Questions