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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rifkind, David
Other Authors: Freeman, Geraldine L.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; San Diego, Calif. : Elsevier/Academic, �2005.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.