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Brain fever : how vaccines prevent meningitis / E. Richard Moxon, University of Oxford, UK.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moxon, E. Richard, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Meningitis--Treatment.
- Meningitis.
- Vaccination.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- New Jersey : World Scientific, [2021]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Meningitis and Vaccines: An Introduction
- References
- Chapter 2 A Bacterial World
- Chapter 3 Bacterial Assassins
- Chapter 4 Becoming a Medical Doctor
- Chapter 5 On the Shoulders of Giants
- Chapter 6 Becoming a Clinician-Scientist
- Chapter 7 Early Research on Hi-b Vaccines
- Chapter 8 Johns Hopkins Hospital
- Chapter 9 Snake Venom, Bottlenecks and Genetics: The Challenges of Research
- References
- Chapter 10 A Needle in a Haystack: Searching for Virulent Bacterial Genes
- Chapter 11 Promotion: New Opportunities and Challenges
- Chapter 12 Reverse Culture Shock and the Dreaming Spires of Oxford
- Reference
- Chapter 13 Developing and Implementing the Hi-b Conjugate Vaccines
- Chapter 14 Laboratory Research: Bacterial Genetics in Oxford
- Chapter 15 Sabbatical in the Mid-West
- Chapter 16 The Conjugate Vaccines and the Formation of the Oxford Vaccine Group
- Chapter 17 The New Genetics and Genome Sequencing
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- References -- Chapter 18 Siena and Vaccine Research -- Chapter 19 Genomics and the Wellcome Trust -- References -- Chapter 20 The Last Frontier: A Vaccine Against Meningococcus B -- References -- Chapter 21 A New Era in Meningitis Vaccines -- References -- Chapter 22 The Most Important Medical Intervention in History -- References -- Chapter 23 Trust and Mistrust in Vaccines.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Moxon, E. Richard. Brain fever.
- ISBN:
- 1786349884
- 9781786349880
- Publisher Number:
- 99988101607
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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