To catch a virus. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Authors: Booss, John; August, Marilyn J; Landry, Marie Louise
• Contents: List of Illustrations viii Acknowledgments xix Foreword xxiii Preface xxv About the Authors xxxi CHAPTER 1 Fear or Terror on Every Countenance: Yellow Fever 1 CHAPTER 2 Of Mice and Men: Animal Models of Viral Infection 19 CHAPTER 3 Filling the Churchyard with Corpses: Smallpox and the Immune Response 43 CHAPTER 4 What Can Be Seen: From Viral Inclusion Bodies to Electron Microscopy 65 CHAPTER 5 The Turning Point: Cytopathic Effect in Tissue Culture 93 CHAPTER 6 A Torrent of Viral Isolates: The Early Years of Diagnostic Virology 129 CHAPTER 7 Imaging Viruses and Tagging Their Antigens 165 CHAPTER 8 Immunological Memory: Ingenuity and Serendipity 209 CHAPTER 9 To the Barricades: The Molecular Revolution 245 CHAPTER 10 The World Changed: The COVID-19 Pandemic 285 APPENDIX Chapter timelines 349 GLOSSARY 361 Index 369
• Edition: Second edition
• Publisher Details: Washington, D.C : ASM Press
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 616.9101; Virology -- History; Virus diseases -- Diagnosis; Virus diseases -- History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781683673750
• Related ISBNs: 9781683673736
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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