20th century microbe hunters
By: Robert I. Krasner.
Publisher: Jones and Bartlett Publishers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Sudbury, MA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780763742010
Subjects: Microbiologists -- Biography; Microbiology -- History -- 20th century; Microbiology -- Biography; Bacterial Infections -- history; History, 20th Century; Parasitic Diseases -- history; Virus Diseases -- history
Genres: Biography.
Other titles: Twentieth century microbe hunters
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Carlos Chagas : Chagas disease; title: a death kiss; title: Alexander Fleming : the mold that changed the world; title: Charles Nicolle : the cause and transmission of epidemic typhus fever; title: Richard E. Shope : discovery of the influenza virus; title: Jonas Salk: development of the first polio vaccine; title: Donald A. Henderson : eradication of smallpox; title: D. Carlton Gajdusek and Stanley Prusiner : prions; title: all but the moo; title: Robert C. Gallo and Luc Montagnier: AIDS; title: a 20th century ongoing plague; title: Barry Marshall and J. Robin Warren : ulcers; title: a bacterial infection; title: Donald R. Hopkins : eradication of Guinea worm disease.