Leeuwenhoek's Legatees and Beijerinck's Beneficiaries : A History of Medical Virology in The Netherlands /

This book offers a tour of the history of medical virology in the Netherlands from the nineteenth century to the new millennium. Beginning with the discovery of the first virus by Martinus Beijerinck in 1898, the authors investigate the reception and redefinition of his concept in medical circles an...

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Auteurs principaux: Doornum, Gerard van (Auteur), Sankaran, Neeraja (Auteur)
Autres auteurs: Helvoort, T. van (Éditeur intellectuel)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:anglais
Publié: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
  • Origins in the dark
  • Redefining viruses
  • On the fringes
  • From cell culture to the molecular revolution
  • Medical virology in the Netherlands after 1950
  • Techniques and instruments
  • Dutch virology in the tropics
  • From cancer mice in the roaring 1920s to oncogenes and signalling molecules in the booming 1990s
  • Virus vaccines and immunization programmes.