To Catch a Virus (ASM Books) - Softcover

Booss, John; August, Marilyn J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1555815073 ISBN 13: 9781555815073

Publisher: ASM Press, 2013

Synopsis

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.
• Describes how scientists applied revolutionary technologies, studying viruses, first in animal models and tissue culture and progressing to molecular and genetic techniques.
• Appeals to the pioneer and adventure-seeker who is interested in how a scientific field evolves.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

To Catch a Virus

First Edition

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.
• Describes how scientists applied revolutionary technologies, studying viruses, first in animal models and tissue culture and progressing to molecular and genetic techniques.
• Appeals to the pioneer and adventure-seeker who is interested in how a scientific field evolves.

About the Author:

Author Marilyn J. August has been nominated by the National League of American Pen Women as a “Letters Achiever”. Pen Women is a nation-wide organization composed of professional women in art, letters and music and has been around for more than 100 years http://www.nlapw.org/history/ . Two women in each artistic field are honored at a Celebrity Luncheon by the local Santa Clara County Branch of the organization, and Dr. August has been selected as one of the Letters Achievers for 2014.

About this edition

• Publisher: ASM Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1555815073
• ISBN 13: 9781555815073
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 392