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No time to lose : a life in pursuit of deadly viruses / Peter Piot with Ruth Marshall.
Van Pelt Library QR359.72.P56 A3 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Piot, Peter, 1949-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Piot, Peter, 1949-.
- Piot, Peter.
- Diagnostic microbiology.
- Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS.
- Communicable diseases--Treatment.
- Communicable diseases.
- Communicable diseases--Africa.
- Medical virology.
- Ebola virus disease--History.
- Ebola virus disease.
- Virology.
- AIDS (Disease)--History.
- AIDS (Disease).
- History.
- Belgium.
- Africa.
- England.
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome--history.
- Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola--history.
- History, 20th Century.
- History, 21st Century.
- International Cooperation.
- Medical Subjects:
- Virology.
- Belgium.
- England.
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome--history.
- Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola--history.
- History, 20th Century.
- History, 21st Century.
- International Cooperation.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 387 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Life in pursuit of deadly viruses
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton & Co., [2012]
- Summary:
- The story of a microbiologist's remarkable career, from identifying the Ebolavirus to pioneering AIDS research and policy.
- Contents:
- A blue flask of virus
- Adventure at last
- The mission in Yambuku
- Ebola
- A pseudo outbreak and a helicopter
- The big team
- From Ebola to sex and the transmission of infection
- America and back
- Nairobi
- A new epidemic
- Project SIDA
- Yambuku one more time
- The unfolding of an epidemic
- Changing of the guard
- An international bureaucrat
- Sharks in the water
- Getting the basics right
- The lesson of the chameleon/bringing together the brilliant coalition
- The tipping point
- The price of life
- A war chest for AIDS
- An unfinished agenda.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9780393063165
- 039306316X
- OCLC:
- 755705005
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