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Tapeworms, Lice, and Prions
David Grove
其他書名
A Compendium of Unpleasant Infections
出版OUP Oxford, 2014
主題Health & Fitness / GeneralMedical / EpidemiologyMedical / MicrobiologyMedical / Tropical MedicineMedical / Infection ControlScience / GeneralScience / Life Sciences / BacteriologyScience / Life Sciences / BiologyScience / Life Sciences / MicrobiologyScience / Life Sciences / Zoology / InvertebratesScience / Life Sciences / Virology
ISBN01996410219780199641024
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=FHo9AgAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋From tapeworms and lice to fungi and down to tiny viruses, we are surrounded by agents of infectious disease which can be caught from other people, animals, and the environment. The variety of such agents is enormous and their methods of infection often ingenious. Some have life cycles that also involve non-human hosts. The discovery of these agents of disease has involvede luck and accident as well as didication, even on occasion to the point of self-experimentation. David Ian Grove brings together here the stories of most of the major infectious agents, describing their nature, how they were discovered, and the lives of their discoverers. The result is an enormously rich and highly readable compendium full of fascinating accounts of the discoveries that have profoundly altered medicine over the past two centuries. -- from dust jacket.