TY  - BOOK
AU  - van Doornum, Gerard
AU  - van Helvoort, Ton
AU  - Sankaran, Neeraja
AB  - The title of the book pays tribute to two Dutch scientists without whom  virology would arguably not exist today, at least not in its present guise. The  first is Antony van Leeuwenhoek, whose reports of microscopic discoveries  in the early eighteenth century aroused interest in the world of invisible  creatures. His findings laid the basis for a theory of a particulate cause  of infectious diseases, but, as George Rosen wrote, without any tangible  results in support of the theory (1993/1958, pp. 84-85). Some 250 years later  Martinus Willem Beijerinck launched the discipline of virology with his  idea that tobacco mosaic disease (TMD) was caused by a living contagious  fluid or filterable living pathogen.
DO  - 10.5117/9789463720113
ID  - OAPEN ID: 1007186
KW  - History
KW  - medicine
KW  - microbiology
KW  - virology
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/7a58520b-cc18-458e-b30a-e38161c2869f/9789048544066.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/22972
PB  - Amsterdam University Press
PP  - Amsterdam
PY  - 2020
SN  - 9789463720113
TI  - Leeuwenhoek's Legatees and Beijerinck's Beneficiaries : A History of Medical Virology in The Netherlands
ER  - 
