To catch a virus / John Booss, Marie Louise Landry, with Marilyn J. August.
| Author/creator | Booss, John |
| Other author | Landry, Marie Louise. |
| Other author | August, Marilyn J. |
| Other author | American Society for Microbiology. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | Second edition. |
| Publication Info | Hoboken, NJ : Wiley ; Washington, DC : American Society for Microbiology, [2023] |
| Description | 1 online resource |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Fear or Terror on Every Countenance : Yellow Fever -- Of Mice and Men : Animal Models of Viral Infection -- Filling the Churchyard with Corpses : Smallpox and the Immune Response -- What Can Be Seen : from Viral Inclusion Bodies to Electron Microscopy -- The Turning Point : Cytopathic Effect in Tissue Culture -- A Torrent of Viral Isolates : the Early Years of Diagnostic Virology -- Imaging Viruses and Tagging Their Antigens -- Immunological Memory : Ingenuity and Serendipity -- To the Barricades : the Molecular Revolution -- The World Changed : The COVID-19 Pandemic. |
| Abstract | "We are pleased with the reception of the first edition of To Catch a Virus, suggesting that there is a place in the literature for a book describing the history of how viruses are captured and identified. With a nod to To Catch a Thief, Alfred Hitchcock's 1955 classic mystery film, the first edition served as a chronicle of discovery and diagnosis. It was a history of diagnostic virology from the initial diagnosis of a human viral illness at the turn of the 20th century by Walter Reed and the Yellow Fever Commission to the emergence of molecular methods of diagnosis and the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV/AIDS) epidemic more than a century later. We covered the first diagnostic virology lab at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center at the start of World War II. Diagnostic virology would emerge to sit astride the confluence of dynamic developments in science, public health struggles with epidemics and emerging diseases, and the intensive medical care of individual patients"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Booss, John. To catch a virus Second edition. Hoboken, NJ : Wiley ; Washington, DC : American Society for Microbiology, [2023] 9781683673736 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2022032948 |
| ISBN | 9781683673750 (epub) |
| ISBN | 9781683673743 (Adobe pdf) |
| ISBN | (paperback) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |