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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.
Price: $95.00
Pages: 160
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Imprint: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary Collection
Series: Anniversary Collection
Publication Date:
11 November 2016
ISBN: 9781512800135
Format: eBook
BISACs:
MEDICAL / History, History of medicine
"Austrian's recounting of the history of the quelling reaction makes for fascinating reading. Particularly worthwhile is the story of pneumococcal vaccine development."