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Helicobacter Pioneers
Firsthand Accounts from the Scientists who Discovered Helicobacters 1892 - 1982
Barry Marshall (Edited by), B Marshall (Author)
9780867930351, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 7 June 2005
244 pages
25.6 x 18.1 x 1.6 cm, 0.425 kg
Blackwell is proud to announce Professor Barry Marshall, along with Dr. Robin Warren, have been awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. Providing background and the human touch of a discovery process taking almost a century, Helicobacter Pioneers is a collection of accounts from pioneering researchers of Helicobacter pylori, of who had firsthand knowledge of the pioneer. A remarkable work with original accounts that will never date, this book will inspire readers interested in gastroenterology, microbiology, or any facet of medical or scientific history.
Foreward Preface List of Contributors Acknowledgements 1 Helicobacters were discovered in Italy in 1892: An episode in the scientific life of an eclectic pathlogist, Giulio Bizzozero 2 The discovery of Helicobacter pylori in Japan 3 An early study of human stomach bacteria 5 Gastric urease in ulcer patients in the 1940's: The Irish connection 6 How it was discovered in Belgium and the USA (1955 -1976) that gastric urease was caused by a bacterial infection 7 A personal history of giving birth to the cohort phenomenon of peptic ulcer disease 8 John Lykoudis: The general practitioner in Greece who in 1958 discovered the etiology and a treatment of peptic ulcer disease 9 How I discovered helicobacters in Boston in 1967 10 How we discovered in China in 1972 that antibiotics cure peptic ulcer 11 Helicobacter pylori was discovered in Russia in 1974 12 The discovery of Helicobacter pylori in England in the 1970's 13 We grew the first Helicobacter and didn't even know it! 14 The Dallas experience with acute Helicobacter pylori infection 15 The discovery of Helicobacter pylori in Perth, Western Australia 16 The discovery of Helicobacter pylori, a spiral bacterium, caused peptic ulcer disease 17 Helicobacter pylori treatment in the past and in the 21st Century Index
Natale Figura and Laura Bianciardi
Yoshihiro Fukuda, Tadashi Shimoyama, Takahashi Shimoyana and Barry J Marshall
A Stone Freedberg
Humphrey J O'Connor and Colm A O'Morian
Charles S Lieber
Amnon Sonnenberg
Basil Rigas and Efstathios D Papavassiliou
Susumu Ito
Shu-Dong Xiao, Yao Shi and Wen-Zheng Liu
Igor A Morozov
Howard W Steer
Adrian Lee, Michael Phillips and Jani O'Rourke
Walter L Peterson, William Harford and Barry J Marshall
J Robin Warren
Barry J Marshall
Peter Unge
Subject Areas: Medicine: general issues [MB]
