Main description:

Expert storytellers weave together the science, technological advances, medical urgencies, and human stories that chronicle the development of the field of diagnostic virology.

Follows a historical discoveries that defined viruses and their roles in infectious diseases over a century of developments, epidemics, and molecular advances, and continuing into the 21st century with AIDS, HIV, and a future that in no way resembles the past.
Features the great names and personalities of diagnostic virology, their contributions, their associations, and their challenges to prove findings that some considered fantasy.
Describes how scientists applied revolutionary technologies, studying viruses, first in animal models and tissue culture and progressing to molecular and genetic techniques.
Appeals to the pioneer and adventure-seeker who is interested in how a scientific field evolves.

This title is published by the American Society of Microbiology Press and distributed by Taylor and Francis in rest of world territories.

Contents:

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Preface
About the Authors

1. Fear or Terror on Every Countenance: Yellow Fever
2. Of Mice and Men: Animal Models of Virus Infection
3. Filling the Churchyard with Corpses: Smallpox
and the Immune Response
4. What Can Be Seen: From Viral Inclusion Bodies to
Electron Microscopy
5. The Turning Point: Cytopathic Effect in Tissue Culture
6. A Torrent of Viral Isolates: The Early Years of
Diagnostic Virology
7. Imaging Viruses and Tagging Their Antigens
8. Immunological Memory: Ingenuity and
Serendipity
9. To The Barricades: The Molecular Revolution

Appendix: Chapter Timelines

Index