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To Catch a Virus (ASM Books)
Current price:
$41.95
Publication Date: March 19th, 2013
Publisher:
ASM Press
ISBN:
9781555815073
Pages:
392
Description
Expert storytellers weave together the science, technological advances, medical urgencies, and human stories that chronicle the development of the field of diagnostic virology.
- Follows a 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 viruses, first in animal models and tissue culture and progressing to molecular and genetic techniques.
- Appeals to the pioneer and adventure-seeker who is interested in how a scientific field evolves.
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