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Author Booss, John, author

Title To catch a virus / John Booss and Marilyn J. August
Published Washington, DC : ASM Press, ©2013
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Description 1 online resource (xxvii, 364 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Series Textbook, ASM Press
Textbook, ASM Press
Contents Fear or terror on every countenance : yellow fever -- Of mice and men : animal models of virus infection -- Filling the churchyard with corpses : smallpox and the immune response -- What can be seen : from viral inclusion bodies to electron microscopy -- The turning point : cytopathic effect in tissue culture -- A torrent of viral isolates : the early years of diagnostic virology -- Imaging viruses and tagging their antigens -- Immunological memory : ingenuity and serendipity -- To the barricades : the molecular revolution
Summary Expert storytellers weave together the science, technological advances, medical urgencies, and human stories that chronicle the development of the field of diagnostic virology
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Virology -- History
Virology -- history
History, 19th Century
History, 20th Century
History, 21st Century
Virology -- methods
Virus Diseases -- history
Virus Diseases -- diagnosis
Virology.
Virologie
Virusinfektion
Viruskrankheit
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
Author August, Marilyn J., author
ISBN 9781555818586
1555818587
9781299782365
1299782361
9781683671091
1683671090