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20th century microbe hunters / Robert I. Krasner.

Author/creator Krasner, Robert I.
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoSudbury, MA : Jones and Bartlett Publishers, ©2008.
Descriptionxv, 199 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Subject(s)
Microbiologists--Biography.
Microbiology--History --20th century.
Microbiology--Biography.
Bacterial Infections--history.
History, 20th Century.
Parasitic Diseases--history.
Virus Diseases--history.
Variant title Twentieth century microbe hunters
Contents Carlos Chagas : Chagas disease--a death kiss -- Alexander Fleming : the mold that changed the world -- Charles Nicolle : the cause and transmission of epidemic typhus fever -- Richard E. Shope : discovery of the influenza virus -- Jonas Salk: development of the first polio vaccine -- Donald A. Henderson : eradication of smallpox -- D. Carlton Gajdusek and Stanley Prusiner : prions--all but the moo -- Robert C. Gallo and Luc Montagnier: AIDS--a 20th century ongoing plague -- Barry Marshall and J. Robin Warren : ulcers--a bacterial infection -- Donald R. Hopkins : eradication of Guinea worm disease.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
LCCN 2007021554
ISBN9780763742010 :
ISBN0763742015

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