Cazadores de microbios

Cazadores de microbios

Paul De Kruif

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SELECTOR
Año de edición:
2019
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Relatos de aventuras (infantil/juvenil)
ISBN:
9786074536614
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Los microorganismos son bichos que conviven con la humanidad y que, por una parte, pueden matar en forma misteriosa y en silencio a millones de personas y, por otra, son benéficos para la naturaleza y el ser humano. Esta obra habla de varios investigadores o cazadores de microbios nocivos, causantes éstos de terribles enfermedades como la rabia, la tuberculosis, la difteria, la sífilis y el paludismo, entre otras.Anton Van Leeuwenhoek, Lazzaro Spallanzani, Louis Pasteur, Robert Koch, Émile Roux, Emil Behring, Theobald Smith, Elías Metchnikoff, Ronald Ross, Giovanni Battista Grassi, Paul Ehrlich, Walter Reed y David Bruce son hombres a quienes les debemos estar agradecidos por sus descubrimientos científicos.

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