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Australian Society for Microbiology (1990), Hardback, 610 pages
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This history of microbiologists and research institutes in Australia ranges from Joseph Bancroft's adult worm of filariasis and Louis Pasteur's visit to Australia in 1888 where Australia was used as an 'island laboratory' to test biological control of the rabbit population to more recent work on
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rabbit myxomatosis and studies on influenza viruses. Includes biographies of many scientists over the past two hundred years, and detailed information on the research institutes of the time. Show Less
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0959493042 / 9780959493047
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A classic text, prepared with 320 contributors. As well as general aspects like international activities and microbiology in the two world wars, it included protozoology, soil bacteriology, water microbiology, viruses, and institutions where microbiology is done in Australia.