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Institut Pasteur : today's research, tomorrow's medicine / textes, Marie-Neige Cordonnier, Émilie Gillet, Gérard Lambert ; préfaces de Christian Vigouroux et Érik Orsenna.

By: Cordonnier, Marie-Neige, 1972- [author.].
Contributor(s): Gillet, Émilie [author.] | Lambert, Gérard, 1957- [author.].
Publisher: New York : Abrams, ©2018Description: 207 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles ; 27 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781419730900 (pbk.).Subject(s): Institut Pasteur (Paris, France) -- History | Medicine -- Research -- France -- History | Microbiology -- Research -- France -- History | World health -- HistoryGenre/Form: Print books.Summary: French biologist and chemist Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) transformed medicine when he developed the first rabies vaccine in 1885. Two years later, he founded the Institut Pasteur to fight infectious diseases--tuberculosis, hepatitis, tetanus, plague, influenza, and more. For 130 years, this international organization has been at the forefront of revolutionary discoveries that have contributed to major advances in medicine, in particular the isolation of HIV in 1983. This book sheds light on the activities and battles the Institute has led throughout its history, and its plans for the future.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-206).

French biologist and chemist Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) transformed medicine when he developed the first rabies vaccine in 1885. Two years later, he founded the Institut Pasteur to fight infectious diseases--tuberculosis, hepatitis, tetanus, plague, influenza, and more. For 130 years, this international organization has been at the forefront of revolutionary discoveries that have contributed to major advances in medicine, in particular the isolation of HIV in 1983. This book sheds light on the activities and battles the Institute has led throughout its history, and its plans for the future.

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