Life with the Pneumococcus: Notes from the Bedside, Laboratory, and Library

Because of the high fatality rate of untreated pneumococcal pneumonia, both the disease and its principal cause, the pneumococcus, were objects of intense scrutiny by physicians and bacteriologists during the last two decades of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth. As a result, scientists learned much of the fundamental importance to microbiology, immunology, and genetics while developing the pneumococcal vaccine.

Author: Robert Austrian
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary
Published: 08/29/1985
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.44d
ISBN: 9780812279771