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20th century microbe hunters / Robert I. Krasner.
Levy Dental Medicine Library - Stacks QR30 .K76 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Krasner, Robert I.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Microbiologists--Biography.
- Microbiologists.
- Microbiology--History--20th century.
- Microbiology.
- History.
- Bacterial Infections--history.
- History, 20th Century.
- Parasitic Diseases--history.
- Virus Diseases--history.
- Medical Subjects:
- Microbiology.
- Bacterial Infections--history.
- History, 20th Century.
- Parasitic Diseases--history.
- Virus Diseases--history.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 199 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- Twentieth century microbe hunters
- Place of Publication:
- Sudbury, MA : Jones and Bartlett Publishers, [2008]
- Contents:
- Carlos Chagas (1879-1934): Chagas disease
- a kiss of death
- Alexander Fleming (1881-1955): the mold that changed the world
- Charles Nicolle (1866-1936): the cause and transmission of epidemic typhus fever
- Richard E. Shope (1901-1966): discovery of the influenza virus
- Jonas Salk (1914-1995): development of the first polio vaccine
- Donald A. Henderson (b. 1928): eradication of smallpox
- D. Carlton Gajdusek (b. 1923) and Stanley Prusiner (b. 1942): prions
- all but the moo
- Robert C. Gallo (b. 1937) and Luc Montagnier (b. 1932): Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
- a 20th century ongoing plague
- Barry Marshall (b. 1951) and J. Robin Warren (b. 1937): ulcers
- a bacterial infection
- Donald R. Hopkins (b. 1941): eradication of Guinea worm disease.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9780763742010
- 0763742015
- OCLC:
- 136316476
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