To Catch a Virus (eBook)

John Booss, Marilyn J. August (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2013 | 1. Auflage
300 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-68367-352-1 (ISBN)

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Expert storytellers weave together the science, technological advances, medical urgencies, and human stories that chronicle the development of the field of diagnostic virology.

* 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.3.2013
• Reihe/Serie: ASM
• Reihe/Serie: ASM
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitsfachberufe
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Mikrobiologie / Infektologie / Reisemedizin
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Mikrobiologie / Immunologie
• Schlagworte: Biowissenschaften • Geschichte • Geschichte der Medizin u. Naturwissenschaften • History • History of Science & Medicine • Life Sciences • Microbiology & Virology • Mikrobiologie • Mikrobiologie u. Virologie • Virologie • Virology
• ISBN-10: 1-68367-352-2 / 1683673522
• ISBN-13: 978-1-68367-352-1 / 9781683673521