TY - BOOK AU - Krasner,Robert I. TI - 20th century microbe hunters: their lives, accomplishments, and legacies SN - 9780763742010 (pbk.) U1 - 579.0922 PY - 2008/// CY - Sudbury, MA PB - Jones and Bartlett Publishers KW - Microbiologists KW - Biography KW - Microbiology KW - History KW - 20th century N1 - 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 ER -