Bibliograph

20th century microbe hunters, Robert I. Krasner

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20th century microbe hunters, Robert I. Krasner

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

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collective biography

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Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

20th century microbe hunters

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

136316476

Responsibility statement

Robert I. Krasner

Table Of Contents

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

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Twentieth century microbe hunters

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