20th century microbe hunters : their lives, accomplishments, and legacies Robert I. Krasner.
By: Krasner, Robert I.
Publisher: Sudbury, MA : Jones and Bartlett Publishers, c2008Description: xv, 199 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9780763742010 (pbk.); 0763742015 (pbk.).Other title: Twentieth century microbe hunters.Subject(s): Microbiologists -- Biography | Microbiology -- History -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 579.0922Item type | Current location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references.
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.