Book Details
Format
Hardcover
Pages
160
Language
English
Published
Aug 29, 1985
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary Collection
ISBN-10
0812279778
ISBN-13
9780812279771
Description
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.