To Catch a Virus
American Society for Microbiology (Verlag)
978-1-55581-507-3 (ISBN)
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Follows a historical discoveries that defined viruses and their roles in infectious diseases over a century of developments, epidemics, and molecular advances, and continuing into the 21st century with AIDS, HIV, and a future that in no way resembles the past.
Features the great names and personalities of diagnostic virology, their contributions, their associations, and their challenges to prove findings that some considered fantasy.
Describes how scientists applied revolutionary technologies, studying viruses, first in animal models and tissue culture and progressing to molecular and genetic techniques.
Appeals to the pioneer and adventure-seeker who is interested in how a scientific field evolves.
This title is published by the American Society of Microbiology Press and distributed by Taylor and Francis in rest of world territories.
Author Marilyn J. August has been nominated by the National League of American Pen Women as a "Letters Achiever." Pen Women is a nation-wide organization composed of professional women in art, letters and music and has been around for more than 100 years http: //www.nlapw.org/history/ . Two women in each artistic field are honored at a Celebrity Luncheon by the local Santa Clara County Branch of the organization, and Dr. August has been selected as one of the Letters Achievers for 2014.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Preface
About the Authors
1. Fear or Terror on Every Countenance: Yellow Fever
2. Of Mice and Men: Animal Models of Virus Infection
3. Filling the Churchyard with Corpses: Smallpox
and the Immune Response
4. What Can Be Seen: From Viral Inclusion Bodies to
Electron Microscopy
5. The Turning Point: Cytopathic Effect in Tissue Culture
6. A Torrent of Viral Isolates: The Early Years of
Diagnostic Virology
7. Imaging Viruses and Tagging Their Antigens
8. Immunological Memory: Ingenuity and
Serendipity
9. To The Barricades: The Molecular Revolution
Appendix: Chapter Timelines
Index
| Verlagsort | Washington DC |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Gewicht | 696 g |
| Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Mikrobiologie / Infektologie / Reisemedizin |
| Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Infektiologie / Immunologie | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Mikrobiologie / Immunologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-55581-507-3 / 1555815073 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-55581-507-3 / 9781555815073 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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