The Nobel Prize winning discoveries in infectious diseases
Title:
The Nobel Prize winning discoveries in infectious diseases
Publication Information:
Amsterdam : Elsevier/Academic Press, c2005.
Physical Description:
x, 166 p. : ill., maps.
General Note:
Includes index.
Contents:
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 -- Kuru -- Prions -- Malaria -- Cancer parasite -- DDT.
