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Author Gallo, Robert C.

Title Virus hunting : AIDS, cancer, and the human retrovirus : a story of scientific discovery / Robert Gallo.

Publication Info. [New York, NY] : BasicBooks, [1991]
©1991

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  616.0194 G13    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  616.0194 GAL    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  616.0194 GALLO    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  616.0194 G172V    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Non Fiction  616.0194 GALLO    Check Shelf
Description x, 352 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note "A New republic book."
Includes indexes.
Contents I. Some history behind the story. Becoming a physician, becoming a scientist; The National Institutes of Health and the Laboratory of Tumor Cell Biology; Microscopic intruders -- II. The discovery of cancer-causing retroviruses in humans. The story of retroviruses and cancer: from poultry to people; Success, defeat, success; Discovery of a cancer virus: the first human retrovirus; Discovery of the second human retrovirus (and how the HTLVs produce disease) -- The discovery of a third human retrovirus; the AIDS virus. A single disease wit a single cause; Breaking through: "we know how to work with this kind of virus"; Making progress, making sense: the period of intense discovery; The blood test patent suit: rivalry and resolution -- IV. A scientist's look at the science and politics of AIDS. The alarm; How the AIDS virus works; Kaposi's Sarcoma: a special tumor of AIDS; About causes of disease (and, in particular, Why HIV is the cause of AIDS); What we can do about AIDS and the AIDS virus.
Subject Gallo, Robert C.
Virologists -- United States -- Biography.
HIV (Viruses)
AIDS (Disease)
Gallo, Robert C.
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- Autobiography.
Neoplasms -- etiology -- Autobiography.
Research -- Autobiography.
Retroviridae -- Autobiography.
ISBN 0465098061
9780465098064
0465098150 paperback
9780465098156 paperback
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