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

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

Hardcover

Series: Anniversary Collection

Medical Reference

ISBN10: 0812279778
ISBN13: 9780812279771
Publisher: Univ Penn Pr Anniversary Colle
Published: Aug 29 1985
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
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.

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