本の詳細
形式
ハードカバー
ページ数
160
言語
英語
公開されました
Aug 29, 1985
出版社
University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary Collection
ISBN-10
0812279778
ISBN-13
9780812279771
説明
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.