The Nobel Prize winning discoveries in infectious diseases
This book presents the 24 discoveries in infectious diseases that have merited Nobel Prize recognition since the inception of the awards in 1901. Grouped according to biological groups rather than chronology, each discovery includes a biographical sketch of the laureate(s), a description of the rese...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; San Diego, Calif. :
Elsevier/Academic
2005.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b31808530*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Alfred Nobel and the Nobel Prizes
- Immunity
- Serotherapy
- Antimicrobial Defenses
- MHC Restriction
- Antimicrobials
- Prontosil and the Sulfonamides
- Penicillin
- Streptomycin
- Chemotherapeutic Agents
- Bacteria
- Tuberculosis
- Typhus
- Syphilis Therapy
- Viruses
- Tobacco Mosaic Virus
- Yellow Fever
- Poliomyelitis Virus
- Hepatitis B Virus
- Bacteriophage
- Bacteriophage Lysogeny
- Rous Sarcoma Virus
- Polyoma Virus
- Reverse Transcriptase
- Viral Oncogenes
- Kuru
- Prions
- Parasites
- Malaria
- Cancer Parasite
- DDT
- Counterpoint: HIV / AIDS
- Index.
- 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
- Prions
- Malaria
- Cancer parasite
- DDT.
