TY  - BOOK
AU  - Krasner,Robert I.
TI  - 20th century microbe hunters : their lives, accomplishments, and legacies
SN  - 9780763742010 (alk. paper)
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Sudbury, MA
PB  - Jones and Bartlett Publishers
KW  - Microbiologists
KW  - Biography
KW  - Microbiology
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Bacterial Infections
KW  - history
KW  - History, 20th Century
KW  - Parasitic Diseases
KW  - Virus Diseases
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Carlos Chagas : Chagas disease--a death kiss -- Alexander Fleming : the mold that changed the world -- Charles Nicolle : the cause and transmission of epidemic typhus fever -- Richard E. Shope : discovery of the influenza virus -- Jonas Salk: development of the first polio vaccine -- Donald A. Henderson : eradication of smallpox -- D. Carlton Gajdusek and Stanley Prusiner : prions--all but the moo -- Robert C. Gallo and Luc Montagnier: AIDS--a 20th century ongoing plague -- Barry Marshall and J. Robin Warren : ulcers--a bacterial infection -- Donald R. Hopkins : eradication of Guinea worm disease
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0718/2007021554.html
ER  -