Krasner, Robert I. <br/><br/>
20th century microbe hunters : their lives, accomplishments, and legacies / 
 Twentieth century microbe hunters 
Robert I. Krasner 
 - Sudbury, MA :  Jones and Bartlett Publishers,  2008 
 - xv, 199 p. :  ill., map ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references 
<br/><br/>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 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780763742010 (alk. paper)  RM126.87 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Microbiologists--Biography<br/>Microbiology--History--20th century<br/>Microbiology--Biography<br/>Bacterial Infections--history<br/>History, 20th Century<br/>Parasitic Diseases--history<br/>Virus Diseases--history