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The Nobel Prize winning discoveries in infectious diseases /

This book presents the 24 discoveries in infectious diseases that have merited Nobel Prize recognition since the inception of the awards in 1901. Grouped according to biological groups rather than chronology, each discovery includes a biographical sketch of the laureate(s), a description of the rese...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rifkind, David
Otros Autores: Freeman, Geraldine L.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; San Diego, Calif. : Elsevier/Academic, ©2005.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Alfred Nobel and the Nobel Prizes
  • Immunity
  • Serotherapy
  • Antimicrobial Defenses
  • MHC Restriction
  • Antimicrobials
  • Prontosil and the Sulfonamides
  • Penicillin
  • Streptomycin
  • Chemotherapeutic Agents
  • Bacteria
  • Tuberculosis
  • Typhus
  • Syphilis Therapy
  • Viruses
  • Tobacco Mosaic Virus
  • Yellow Fever
  • Poliomyelitis Virus
  • Hepatitis B Virus
  • Bacteriophage
  • Bacteriophage Lysogeny
  • Rous Sarcoma Virus
  • Polyoma Virus
  • Reverse Transcriptase
  • Viral Oncogenes
  • Kuru
  • Prions
  • Parasites
  • Malaria
  • Cancer Parasite
  • DDT
  • Counterpoint: HIV / AIDS
  • Index.
  • Serotherapy
  • Antimicrobial defenses
  • MHC restriction
  • Prontosil and the sulfonamides
  • Penicillin
  • Streptomycin
  • Chemotherapeutic agents
  • Tuberculosis
  • Typhus
  • Syphilis therapy
  • Tobacco mosaic virus
  • Yellow fever
  • Poliomyelitis virus
  • Hepatitis B virus
  • Bacteriophage
  • Bacteriophage lysogeny
  • Rous sarcoma virus
  • Polyoma virus
  • Reverse transcriptase
  • Viral oncogenes
  • Prions
  • Malaria
  • Cancer parasite
  • DDT.