To Catch a Virus:

Name: To Catch a Virus:
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ISBN: 9781555815073

ISBN-10: 1555815073

ISBN-13: 9781555815073

Edition: 2012

Authors: John Booss, Marilyn August

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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. Key Features: Follows 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…

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List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Amer Society for Microbiology
Binding: Cloth Text
Pages: 350
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Foreword


Preface


About the Authors


Fear or Terror on Every Countenance: Yellow Fever


Of Mice and Men: Animal Models of Viral 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


Appendix: Chapter Timelines


Index