A History of Experimental Virology
By their powers of reason scientists will be able to extract from nature the answers to their questions. From: Critique of Pure Reason, 1781 Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), German Philosopher History is a composite of stories. The history of the biological disciplines has been written by all those who op...
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Berlin, Heidelberg
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
1991, 1991
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1991 |
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Table of Contents:
- 1 2000 Years Preceded the Emergence of Experimental Virology
- 1.1 Antiquity and the Origin of the Plague
- 1.2 The Cornerstones of Generatio Spontanea Begin to Quake
- 1.3 The Germ Theory is Born and Proven
- 1.4 The Germ Theory Crystallizes into the Germ Doctrine
- 1.5 The Theoretical and Experimental Basis of the Germ Doctrine at the End of the 19th Century
- 2 Microscopes and Culture Media Fail
- 2.1 The Virus and Koch’s Postulates
- 2.2 A New Type of Pathogenic Agent?
- 3 Are Filterable Viruses Miniscule Bacteria?
- 3.1 The Use of Physical Methods
- 3.2 Biochemical Investigations with Filterable Viruses
- 3.3 Are Cell Inclusions Specific to Filterable Viruses?
- 3.4 Culturing Filterable Viruses In Vivo and In Vitro
- 3.5 Filterable Viruses as Antigens
- 3.6 Filterable Viruses as Pathogens
- 3.7 Viruses are not Just Very Small Bacteria
- 4 On the Way to a Definition of the Virus
- 4.1. Viruses as Pathogens
- 4.2 A Biochemical Approach to the Virus
- 4.3 Viruses as Genetic Macromolecules
- 4.4 What Exactly is a Virus?
- 5 The Period of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
- 5.1 The Virion
- 5.2 The Virus Multiplication Cycle
- 5.3 Viruses as Pathogens
- 5.4 Viruses and Immunity
- 5.5 Viral Pathogenicity
- 5.6 Virus Chemotherapy
- Epilogue
- Name Index