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Because of the high fatality rate of untreated pneumococcal pneumonia, both the disease and its principal cause, the pneumococcus, were objects of intense scrutiny by physicians and bacteriologists during the last two decades of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth. As a result, scientists learned much of the fundamental importance to microbiology, immunology, and genetics while developing the pneumococcal vaccine.
Contains: Biographies to appear in the immediately succeeding biennial volume of Who's who ... sketches of those in the news ... selected sketches of deceased biographees listed in Marquis compilations ... current additions which are being made to the standing sketches of Marquis biographees--[p.1]
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