To Catch a Virus

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Author: John Booss, MD, Marilyn August, PhD
Affiliation: Yale University School of Medicine
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Publication Date: 2013
ISBN 10: 1555815073
ISBN 13: 9781555815073
eISBN: 9781555818586
Edition: 1st
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. Appeals to the pioneer and adventure-seeker who is interested in how a scientific field evolves.
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