Table of Contents

 

 

 

 

List of illustrations

ix

 

Acknowledgments

xv

 

Foreword

xix

 

Preface

xxi

 

About the Authors

xxvii

Chapter 1

Fear or Terror on Every Countenance: Yellow Fever

1

Chapter 2

Of Mice and Men: Animal Models of Viral Infection

23

Chapter 3

Filling the Churchyard with Corpses: Smallpox and the Immune Response

51

Chapter 4

What Can Be Seen: from Viral Inclusion Bodies to Electron Microscopy

79

Chapter 5

The Turning Point: Cytopathic Effect in Tissue Culture

113

Chapter 6

A Torrent of Viral Isolates: the Early Years of Diagnostic Virology

157

Chapter 7

Imaging Viruses and Tagging Their Antigens

197

Chapter 8

Immunological Memory: Ingenuity and Serendipity

249

Chapter 9

To the Barricades: the Molecular Revolution

293

Appendix

Chapter Timelines

339

 

Index

353