Leeuwenhoek's Legatees and Beijerinck's Beneficiaries : : A History of Medical Virology in the Netherlands.

• Author: van Doornum, Gerard.
• TeilnehmendeR: van Helvoort, Ton.; Sankaran, Neeraja.
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press,, 2020.; Ã2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (360 pages)

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Table of Contents
• List of illustrations
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• Preface
• 1. Origins in the dark
• 2. Redefining viruses
• 3. On the fringes
• 4. From cell culture to the molecular revolution
• 5. Medical virology in the Netherlands after 1950
• 6. Techniques and instruments
• 7. Dutch virology in the tropics
• 8. From cancer mice in the roaring 1920s to oncogenes and signalling molecules in the booming 1990s
• 9. Virus vaccines and immunization programmes
• 10. Conclusions
• List of institutes and laboratories
• References
• Index.