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Life with the Pneumococcus : Notes from the Bedside, Laboratory, and Library /
Because of the high fatality rate of untreated pneumococcal pneumonia, both the disease and its principal cause, the pneumococcus, were objects of intense scrutiny by physicians and bacteriologists during the last two decades of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth. As a result...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2016]
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| Edición: | Reprint 2016 |
| Colección: | Anniversary Collection
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Because of the high fatality rate of untreated pneumococcal pneumonia, both the disease and its principal cause, the pneumococcus, were objects of intense scrutiny by physicians and bacteriologists during the last two decades of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth. As a result, scientists learned much of the fundamental importance to microbiology, immunology, and genetics while developing the pneumococcal vaccine. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (160 p.) : 14 illus. |
| ISBN: | 9781512800135 9783110442526 |
| Acceso: | restricted access |