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20th century microbe hunters : their lives, accomplishments, and legacies

Print Book, English, ©2008
Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Sudbury, MA, ©2008
Biography
xv, 199 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
9780763742010, 0763742015
136316476
Carlos Chagas : Chagas disease
a death kiss
Alexander Fleming : the mold that changed the world
Charles Nicolle : the cause and transmission of epidemic typhus fever
Richard E. Shope : discovery of the influenza virus
Jonas Salk: development of the first polio vaccine
Donald A. Henderson : eradication of smallpox
D. Carlton Gajdusek and Stanley Prusiner : prions
all but the moo
Robert C. Gallo and Luc Montagnier: AIDS
a 20th century ongoing plague
Barry Marshall and J. Robin Warren : ulcers
a bacterial infection
Donald R. Hopkins : eradication of Guinea worm disease