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Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsForewordPrefaceAbout the Authors1. Fear or Terror on Every Countenance: Yellow Fever2. Of Mice and Men: Animal Models of Virus Infection3. Filling the Churchyard with Corpses: Smallpox and the Immune Response4. What Can Be Seen: From Viral Inclusion Bodies to Electron Microscopy5. The Turning Point: Cytopathic Effect in Tissue Culture6. A Torrent of Viral Isolates: The Early Years of Diagnostic Virology7. Imaging Viruses and Tagging Their Antigens8. Immunological Memory: Ingenuity and Serendipity9. To The Barricades: The Molecular RevolutionAppendix: Chapter TimelinesIndex...
